Two days before a law banning certain treatments for transgender minors is set to take effect, several Georgia families filed federal a lawsuit against the state late Thursday asking the courts to stop the measure from taking effect, saying it takes away the rights of parents to make health care decisions about their children.
The law is scheduled to take effect Saturday. The families asked the judge to immediately block the law from taking effect while the challenge makes its way through the court process.
Republican lawmakers made it a priority this year to pass a bill to ban health care providers from providing certain hormones or surgical treatment to children to align with their gender identity, as legislators did in several other GOP-led states.
