The restrictive and threatening law makes it a felony for healthcare workers to provide life-saving gender-affirming treatments, including prescribing puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and gender-affirming surgeries to trans youth.
U.S. Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum said: "The panel opinion is wrong and dangerous. Make no mistake: while the panel opinion continues in force, no modern medical treatment is safe from a state's misguided decision to outlaw it, almost regardless of the state's reason."
The families' lawyers said in a joint statement regarding the damaging decision: "Families, not the government, should make medical decisions for children. The evidence presented in the case overwhelmingly showed that the banned treatments provide enormous benefits to the adolescents who need them and that parents are making responsible decisions for their own children."
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall stated that the decision to deny trans youth essential gender-affirming care in the state "is a big win to protect children" from "life-altering chemical and surgical procedures."
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