Georgia’s Ban on Transgender Care for Minors Takes Effect Again

A federal judge in Georgia has allowed the state’s ban on gender transition care for minors to go back into full effect, after a federal appeals court panel allowed a similar law in Alabama to be enforced. Before the appellate ruling, the same judge, Sarah Geraghty, had granted a preliminary injunction that temporarily blocked part of the Georgia ban. Background: The ban initially went into effect on July 1 In her initial ruling, Judge Geraghty sided with the plaintiffs — the families of four transgender children in Georgia — who...