Federal Judge Blocks Most of Indiana's Ban on Transgender Care for Youth

A federal judge issued an order stopping an Indiana ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors from taking effect as scheduled on July 1.
The judge issued a preliminary injunction that blocks the ban on most of those treatments, but allows the prohibition on gender reassignment surgeries for minors to take effect on July 1, as planned.
A Trump-appointed judge in Indiana has blocked parts of a state law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth from going into effect next month.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sought the temporary injunction in its legal challenge of the Republican-backed law, which was enacted this spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights.
Transgender youths’ access to gender-affirming care has become a flashpoint in red states across the country, with lawmakers in more than a dozen states moving this year to restrict gender-affirming care for minors.