North Dakota families challenge state’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth

Three North Dakota families with transgender children and a physician are suing the state over a law signed by Republican Gov. Doug Burgum in April that makes it a crime for doctors to provide gender-affirming health care to transgender minors. The lawsuit filed Thursday argues North Dakota’s House Bill 1254 violates the constitutional rights of transgender minors by banning the use of medications like puberty blockers and hormones to treat gender dysphoria, while permitting the same medical care to be provided to patients of any age who are not transgender....