A federal judge on Tuesday restored the enforcement of a law in Georgia that banned licensed medical professionals in the state from providing patients under the age of with crosssex hormone therapy . The law allows minors who started hormone replacement therapies before July to continue the treatment . Enacting restrictions on genderaffirming care for trans youth has emerged as a key issue for conservatives with at least states having limited components of the care in recent years . The legal challenge to SB was brought in late June by four transgender youth in Georgia and their families as well as an advocacy group whose work includes connecting families of transgender children to local practitioners who provide genderaffirm medical care according to a complaint . Georgia law SB was signed in March he argued the law would ensure we protect the health and wellbeing of Georgias children . When Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB in March, he argued it would ensure the law . The Law allows minors to continue to continue their hormone replacement therapy before July but all of the plaintiffs have not started the therapy though all of them are planning to . Two of the minors are taking pubertyblocking medication the suit said. Two of them were taking puberty blocking medication the lawsuit said . The suit said two of the minor plaintiffs have begun the therapy according to the lawsuit. Two are currently taking pubertyblock medication . Two are taking hormone replacement. Two were taking hormone-blocking medication and two of them have begun pubertyblocking medications. Two have been taking puberty blockers. Three of the children are taking hormones. Three are taking the medication. Three have been diagnosed with puberty blocking. Three were diagnosed with the medication . Three of them had not been diagnosed. Three children have not been identified with pubertyblocking. Two children have been pregnant with puberty blockers . Three were pregnant. Three
Federal judge restores part of Georgia’s law that had banned gender-affirming care for
