Court Affirms Laws Protecting Children From Body Mutilations

A federal appeals court has ruled that Kentucky and Tennessee are allowed to implement laws that protect children from certain transgender treatments, treatments that include surgical body mutilations. Also impacted are schemes by medical professionals to use chemicals to alter their physical development. The ruling from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was described in published reports as a “major setback” for the American Civil Liberties Union, which has advocated for those surgical proc