The Federal Court rejects the challenge of the Oklahoma law prohibiting gender transition treatment for minors

A federal court of appeal confirmed an OKLAHOMA law prohibiting the gender transitional medical treatment for minors.

The law, Bill 613 of the Senate, makes a crime for health workers to provide gender transition treatment such as drugs and hormones blocking puberty to a minor.

The bill was adopted by the legislature under the control of the state republican and was signed by the governor of GOP Kevin Stitt in 2023.

Five families of transgender children and a doctor challenged the law of the state, arguing that it had violated their constitutional rights.

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A federal court of appeal confirmed an OKLAHOMA law prohibiting the gender transitional medical treatment for minors. (Getty Images)

The complainants, represented by Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Oklahoma ACLU, argued that the legislators approved the law with discriminatory intention, pointing to a 2022 law which experienced pandemic rescue funding for the hospital system or health unless Oklahoma, the children’s hospital has grouped the transition of minors.

A federal judge refused to block the law to take effect in 2023, writing that transgender medical care for children are “an area in which the medical and political debate takes place” and that the state “can rationally take the side of prudence before allowing irreversible medical treatment of his children”.

In June, the United States Supreme Court confirmed a similar ban on Tennessee on the treatment related to transgender, a decision relied on the moment when the 10th circuit made its decision in Oklahoma on Wednesday, when a panel of three judges judged unanimously that the Oklahoma law is constitutional.

The laws of Tennessee and Oklahoma “are functionally indistinguishable,” wrote the circuit judge Joel Mr. Carson, appointed by President Donald Trump.

The law, Bill 613 of the Senate, makes a crime for health workers to provide gender transition treatment such as drugs and hormones blocking puberty to a minor. (Allison Dinner / AFP via Getty Images)

The ordinance indicates that the Oklahoma law does not violate the constitution and was not intended to discriminate transgender children.

“We recognize the importance of this question for all those involved,” wrote Carson. “But this remains a new problem with the disagreement on how to ensure the health and well-being of children. We will not use the judgment of the Legislative Assembly when it engages in serious and deep debate on the morality, legality and practical aspect ” of transitional procedures between the sexes for minors.”

“Although we respect that the complainants do not agree with the risk legislator’s assessment of these procedures, which alone does not invalidate a democratically promulgated law for rational basin reasons,” added the judge.

Oklahoma republican prosecutor, Gentner, Drummond praised the court’s decision in a position on social networks.

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The bill was adopted by the legislature under the control of the state republican and was signed by the governor of GOP Kevin Stitt in 2023. (AP photo / Sue Ogrocki, file)

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“For years, left-wing activists have pushed the lie of” gender transition “procedures for minors. The truth is much simpler: there is nothing like it,” he wrote Thursday on X. “Today, here in Oklahoma, we are celebrating a new decision of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals which recognizes this truth and protects our children.

The lawyers of the complainants, on the other hand, described the decision on Wednesday as “a devastating result for the young transgender and their families through Oklahoma and another tragic result of the wandering and harmful decision of the Supreme Court” in the Tennessee case.

“The prohibition of Oklahoma is openly discriminatory and provable for young transgender people of this state, putting the political dogma above parents, their children and their family doctors,” lawyers said in a joint statement. “While we and our customers consider our next steps, we want all transgender people and their families through Oklahoma to know that we will never stop fighting for the future they deserve and their freedom to be themselves.”