In a significant legal development in the United States, a Kansas state district judge temporarily blocked a recently approved law that would have banned gender-transition treatments for minors. Judge Carl Folsom III granted an injunction requested by the parents of two teenagers who wish to continue gender-transition treatment with medicines.
The parents had sued to halt the law, arguing they have the constitutional right to make decisions regarding the health of their children. The injunction halts enforcement of the ban while the legal challenge proceeds — a ruling that is likely to reverberate across the dozens of U.S. states that have enacted or are considering similar legislation.
