Federal Judge Upholds Georgia's Ban on Hormone Therapy for Transgender Minors

A federal judge in Georgia has reinstated the state's ban on certain hormone therapies for transgender minors, following a ruling by the 11th U.S. Circuit of Appeals that overturned a similar law in Alabama. The ban prohibits health care professionals from providing hormones such as estrogen or testosterone to transgender minors and also restricts surgeries for gender-affirming purposes. Attorneys for families with transgender children argued that the law is discriminatory, but the state's attorney general requested the judge to reconsider her earlier ruling. Similar laws in other states have faced legal challenges, with some being temporarily blocked by district judges but later reinstated by appeals courts.