Gender-affirming health care for transgender youth is outlawed in Kentucky after a federal judge temporarily reversed an earlier order blocking the statewide ban.
In a surprising turn, the same federal judge who, in late June, blocked the portion of Senate Bill 150 banning gender-affirming health care for trans youth, granted a stay of that injunction on Friday, fulfilling a request from Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Friday’s stay gives Cameron the power to, for the first time, enforce the statewide health care ban.
U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky David Hale’s reversal of his own order came a week after the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a temporary injunction halting enforcement of a similar law in Tennessee. The appellate court’s ruling restored the Volunteer State’s gender-affirming care ban and consolidated both Kentucky’s and Tennessee’s cases in the same appeals process.
