Cole County, Missouri Circuit Court Judge R. Craig Carter has upheld Missouri’s ban on transgender treatments for minors. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has already vowed to appeal.
Judge R. Craig Carter ruled that the lawsuit brought by transgender children and their parents did not meet any of the criteria required to block the enforcement of a 2023 law on transgender care.
During the 13-day trial earlier this year, the state argued that there was no medical consensus on the efficacy of medical transition.
In his ruling, Judge Carter sided with the state’s argument. He cited a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that said legislative options “must be epically broad” when involving areas “fraught with medical and scientific uncertainties.”
The law prohibits both medical (hormone) transgender treatments and transgender surgeries for minors, which have…
