Trump-appointed US District Judge Liles Burke on Friday blocked part of Alabama’s anti-transgender mania law by insisting that parents have a “fundamental right” to drug their children with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, which he called “medications” that are “well-established, evidence-based treatments for gender dysphoria in minors.”
The law, signed by Alabama governor Kay Ivey in April, also designates the prescribing of puberty blockers or hormones treatments to minors as a felony punishable by up to ten years in prison. Under state law, a minor is defined as any resident under 19 years old.
U.S. District Judge Liles Burke ruled on Friday to allow the prohibition on gender-transition surgeries to remain in effect but granted a temporary injunction to block the sections of the law banning prescription of puberty blockers and hormone medication, in response to a lawsuit…
