by #AbbyVesoulis in #MotherJones:

"Saturday’s ruling is the first time a federal court of appeals has allowed a ban on gender-affirming care to take effect. The ruling deviates from other recent federal rulings on this type of care. As my colleague Madison Pauly recently noted, a federal judge struck down an Arkansas law banning gender-affirming care for kids in late June, pointing to evidence that 'the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients.' Judges in Florida, Indiana, and Kentucky have also granted temporary injunctions in the last few weeks that will keep some kinds of gender-affirming medical care available to trans minors while court challenges continue to progress. (The Sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals, which just allowed Tennessee’s ban to temporarily take effect, said Saturday it will issue a final ruling on the pending Kentucky ban when it renders its final appeals decision on Tennessee’s ban.)"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/tennessee-ban-gender-affirming-care-trans-minors-hormones/

#Tennessee #GenderAffirming #ban #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #AntiTrans #hormone #healthcare

by #AbbyVesoulis in #MotherJones:

"If state courts don’t grant the plaintiffs relief, their decisions may indicate a judicial bias in which the freedom to exercise one’s chosen religion only applies if it is congruent with the court’s religious preference. On the flip side, if courts judge these religious freedom cases in a manner consistent with how the US Supreme Court has been interpreting other religious freedom cases in recent years, the lawsuits could roll back some of the nation’s harshest abortion restrictions in the states where they are being argued, and serve as an instructive guide for religious groups in other states to follow."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/religious-clergy-fighting-for-abortion-rights/

#abortion #religion #AbortionRights #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS