Arkansas Sued For Banning Trans Youth Getting Health Care

The state of Arkansas is being sued over their new law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming health care treatments for trans youth. The ACLU filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas yesterday on behalf of four transgender young people and their families and two doctors, alleging that H.B. 1570 is unconstitutional because it violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by discriminating against transgender people. Read The Story