Tuesday s session of a bench trial concerning the state s first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming health care concluded after just over a half day following testimony from a sociologist and a plastic surgeon called by attorneys defending the law.
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Trial resumed Monday morning after a five-week recess due to scheduling difficulties in the lawsuit contesting the state s first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youths under 18, with testimony of a witness for the state who said gender affirmation therapy proponents label efforts to use psychoanalysis to treat gender dysphoria as "conversion therapy."
A federal bench trial in the matter of four transgender youths in Arkansas, their parents and their doctors is set to resume Monday after recessing for five weeks due to scheduling conflicts in the court of U.S. District Judge James M. Moody Jr.