AP/Andrew DeMilloĪrkansas was the first state to enact such a ban. The ban would prohibit doctors from providing gender-confirming hormones, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18. Rutledge is “extremely disappointed in today’s dangerously wrong decision by the three-judge panel,” the spokesperson said. “Transgender people deserve the right to live healthy lives without fear and discrimination,” Dickson said.Ī spokesperson for Republican Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said the office will ask the appeals court to review the ruling. “The state has no business categorically singling out this care for prohibition,” said Chase Strangio, deputy director for Transgender Justice at the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.Īdvocates say that the measure would contribute to depression, self-harm and suicide among transgender youth. The groups argued that the ban was unconstitutional for denying teenagers what it said was medically necessary treatment and for prohibiting doctors from “treating their patients in accordance with the well-established standards of care.” Woman sues psychiatrist for approving gender transition after just one meeting Transgender teen Dylan Brandt, one of the youths named in the lawsuit, speaks outside the federal courthouse in Little Rock. “Today, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that no child should be denied medical care they need,” ACLU of Arkansas executive director Holly Dickson said in a statement. Arkansass source for breaking news and analysis, with coverage of politics, Little Rock, dining, entertainment, medical marijuana, art, health care and. The American Civil Liberties Union and the non-profit’s Arkansas affiliate filed suit challenging the law on behalf of four transgender youths, their parents and two doctors in the state.
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“Because the minor’s sex at birth determines whether or not the minor can receive certain types of medical care under the law, Act 626 discriminates on the basis of sex,” the court’s ruling stated.Ī trial is scheduled in Little Rock in October on whether to permanently block the mandate, which prohibits doctors from providing gender-confirming hormones, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18, or from referring them to other providers for the treatment. Trans golfer fighting to join LPGA ‘totally different’ than Lia Thomas: Caitlyn Jennerįacebook bans ‘Libs of TikTok’ after Boston children’s hospital hit with threatsĪ three-judge panel of the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a temporary injunction made in July that blocked enforcement of the 2021 law. Rowling’s new book murders character canceled for being ‘transphobic’ He also wounded four others.Irish teacher suspended from school, jailed over transgender pronouns flap The first fourteen victims were members of his family, including a daughter he had sexually abused and the child he had fathered with her. The officers were responding to a report of a man making. Ronald Gene Simmons: Likely Arkansas's most infamous mass murderer, Simmons killed 16 people over a week-long period in December 1987. (AP) Federal authorities said Monday they have started a civil rights investigation following the suspension of three Arkansas law enforcement officers after a video posted on social media showed two of them beating a man while a third officer held him on the ground. Johnson has since faced run-ins with Arkansas law subsequent to his release and is currently serving a four-year federal sentence on weapon and drug charges. Golden was released on May 25, 2007, also his 21st birthday, after spending nine years in prison.
The family said they just found out just a few days ago, because the man didn’t have identification on him. Three Arkansas law enforcement officers were suspended after a video of Worcester's. The family is still in shock after the father of 11 was killed. Randal Worcester departs from the Crawford County Justice Center in Van Buren, Ark. It happened along Chicot Road, near Azlea Drive. Johnson was released on his 21st birthday, August 11, 2005, having spent seven years in prison. A Little Rock family is asking for the public’s help after a man was killed in a hit and run. In August 1998, both boys were sentenced to confinement until they reached the age of 21, which is the maximum sentence available under Arkansas law. The Jonesboro prosecutor later stated that were it not for their ages, he would have sought a death sentence for the pair. The two youths were among the youngest people ever charged with murder in American history.
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