GOP 2024 Candidates Are United On One Thing: Opposing Sex Changes For Minors
Daily CallerAPR 2023
Gender-affirming care is essential for improving and ensuring the mental health and well-being of transgender youth, and Arkansas' anti-trans law violates the first amendment rights of doctors and the equal protection rights of trans youth, as the state doesn't have the power to prohibit the use of state money for gender-affirming care or place new restrictions on patients seeking treatment. This ruling eviscerates the state's anti-trans policies and bigotry that fueled such legislation.
Unfortunately, the judge ignored decades of clinical experience and scientific research to allow the so-called activists to push a political agenda at the expense of Arkansan children. Laws like Act 626 are necessary to protect minors who are too young to consent to such irreversible sex reassignment treatments or make potentially detrimental decisions about their futures. Preventing the state from shielding its children against dangerous medical experimentation sets a dangerous precedent.