Federal court upholds Alabama's trans care ban citing lack of "deeply rooted" history of care
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Story by Elsie Carson-Holt (30 Aug 2024)
A federal court upheld Alabama's ban on gender-affirming care in a 173-page decision that argued that parents do not have a right to get their kids gender-affirming care that's "deeply rooted in the nation's history and traditions."
A three-judge panel had already sided with the state of Alabama on its ban on gender-affirming care. In this week's decision, a majority of the 11 judges on the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider the three-judge panel's decision.
Two appointees of President Donald Trump, U.S. Circuit Judges Barbara Lagoa and Andrew Brasher, participated in the ruling. Lagoa wrote the original opinion from the three-judge panel as well as a concurring opinion in the full court's decision and drew from the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Medical Center, where Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not protect any right "not deeply rooted in the nation's history and traditions."
Lagoa further said that there is no historical record that affirms a parental right for their children to receive gender-affirming care and that the ban did not violate the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.