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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jonathan Mattise

Judges maintain bans on gender-affirming care for youth in Tennessee and Kentucky

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Tennessee and Kentucky can continue to ban gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed, federal appeals judges ruled.

In a 2-1 decision by a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel late Thursday, the majority wrote that elected lawmakers made “precise cost-benefit decisions” in instituting the bans and “did not trigger any reason for judges to second-guess them.”

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