Tennessee and Kentucky can continue to ban gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed, federal appeals judges ruled.
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“Withholding treatment, even up until the age of 18, and allowing puberty to occur consistent with the sex identified at birth is extraordinarily harmful to these children,” a lawyer for the ACLU and National Center for Lesbian Rights said in court Friday.
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