U.S. Supreme Court: State Can Enforce Ban on Sex Changes for Children
The United States Supreme Court awarded Idaho emergency relief that will allow the state to enforce its ban on doctors performing sex-change operations on children and providing them with sex-change drugs.
In a 6-3 decision on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the lower appellate court had gone too far when it blocked Idaho from enforcing the law altogether. The decision, however, does not settle the question of whether the law is constitutional.
BREAKING: Supreme Court rules Idaho can enforce a law banning s*x changes for kids.
The ruling allows Idaho to enforce a law that subjects doctors up to 10 years in prison if they provide hormones, puberty blockers or do s*x change surgeries on minors.
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The lower court had blocked the state from enforcing any part of the law in response to a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the rules. The lawsuit is still ongoing, but the order had been preventing the law from going into effect while both sides litigated the constitutionality of the law in court.
Per the Supreme Court’s decision, Idaho can broadly enforce the law and is only blocked from enforcing it against the plaintiffs who are named in the lawsuit until the litigation is settled.
Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, a Republican, praised the Supreme Court’s decision in a statement Monday. (Read more from “U.S. Supreme Court: State Can Enforce Ban on Sex Changes for Children” HERE)
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