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The case will likely decide the fate of laws in almost half of the states that restrict the practice.

The Trump administration has pushed to remove transgender athletes from Olympic sports

Opponents say that law banning medical care for trans youth signed by Ron DeSantis is part of culture war agenda

President says university student, 21, who died days after being tied to a fence and beaten, was murdered ‘simply for being himself’

Democratic members condemn GOP’s latest ‘cynical and dangerous attack’ on trans youth and families

The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.

Alabama has asked a federal appeals court to lift an injunction blocking the enforcement of a law that criminalizes gender-affirming care for transgender youth — and it’s doing so by invoking the recent Supreme Court opinion that overturned the constitutional right to abortion.

Alabama  is using the U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youth

MIAMI — The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on abortion has raised alarms in Florida that same-sex marriage could be struck down next in a state where the constitution still has language defining marriage as between a man and a woman.