The new Louisiana restrictions on transgender health care treatments, such as hormone remedies, gender reassignment surgery, or puberty-blocking medications for people under 18, has been challenged by advocates for LGBTQ rights.
Five Louisiana adolescents and their families, who were identified in the files by nicknames, filed a complaint on their behalf with Lamda Legal and others. According to a media release from Lamda Legal, the case is currently pending in New Orleans ‘ Louisiana neighborhood court.
State legislators overrode a veto by then-Gov. last year and approved the restrictions. Democrat John Bel Edwards, a The law took effect on January 1 and prohibits, among other things, hormone therapies, gender reassignment surgery, and drugs that block puberty for minors. As a result, Louisiana became one of 22 states that outlawed or limited for transgender care.
The New Orleans complaint is one of many state and federal court problems to those laws. Arkansas’s ban was overturned by a federal judge in June, but another problems led to decisions allowing police. The Supreme Court has been challenged by the ACLU to Kentucky and Tennessee restrictions.
The Louisiana lawsuit contends that by placing restrictions on parents ‘and people’s ability to make their own medical decisions, the law violates the right to privacy provision of the state constitution. It requests a court order prohibiting the enforcement of the law and criminal declaration that it is illegal.
According to the lawsuit, the Act’s ban on offering transgender adolescents with gender dysphoria evidence-based, medically necessary treatment runs counter to their right to seek the medical care they require, as advised by their health professionals and with the assistance of their parents.
Edwards, who had a word limit, resigned from his position on Monday. New Republican governor Former state attorney general Jeff Landry had spoken out in favor of the restrictions. Monday evening, a request for comment was made, but his communications producer did not immediately respond.
