The ruling marks the latest decision in a legal challenge the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed against the ban, enacted last spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed Indiana’s ban on gender-affirming care to go into effect, removing a temporary injunction a judge issued last year.

The ruling was handed down by a panel of justices on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. It marked the latest decision in a legal challenge the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed against the ban, enacted last spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights.

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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    9 months ago

    I’m quite sure a constitutional scholar could come up with a well worded reply to make that argument in detail. I’ll just say that I think part of individual liberty is accessing healthcare.

          • idiomaddict@feddit.de
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            9 months ago

            Right, I’m asking how that doesn’t follow. You don’t have a right to force doctors to specialize in something you want them to, but being restricted by your government from accessing modern healthcare endorsed by the AMA and APA doesn’t seem like liberty to me.

            • LufyCZ@lemmy.world
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              9 months ago

              Let’s take it from the other side.

              Should I have the liberty to not pay taxes? The liberty to dump my garbage into a lake? The liberty to burn a forest down?

              You’re flexing words into meanings that suit you, but if they actually were possible to be interpreted this widely, it’d be chaos.

              • idiomaddict@feddit.de
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                9 months ago

                Those each hurt third parties, which is a very good reason to restrict a liberty. This one doesn’t, so I don’t really see how it fits with the others.

                • LufyCZ@lemmy.world
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                  9 months ago

                  But that’s an opinion, isn’t it? We all don’t have the same opinions, that’s why politics is a thing?

                  Maybe transcare hurts someone’s feelings, you might not agree with that, but we live in a world where their opinion matters, too, for better (or in this case) for worse.

                  • idiomaddict@feddit.de
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                    9 months ago

                    Feelings being hurt does not meet the standard of restriction outside of abuse or harassment, which this is not. That’s not a political opinion, and anyone telling you it is is trying to distort your view of reality. Being trans, gay, or having any immutable characteristic cannot possibly have the same effect on people as targeted abuse or harassment.