For the second time in a week, a federal judge has blocked a Republican-led state legislation targeting medical care for transgender children, with Louisville Public Radio reporting Kentucky’s new law will not go into effect on Thursday as expected. With a number of families with trans children as co-complainants, the ACLU filed suit in May contending the law violated the Constitution’s equal protection and due process clauses.
This is the latest rejection of Republicans’ various legislative efforts to implement their trans- and homophobic agenda. Different federal judges blocked Arkansas’s and Florida’s anti-trans care law last week. Other bans including those Texas and Tennessee are currently being challenged.