Alabama is trying to use SCOTUS’s abortion ruling to ban gender-affirming healthcare

Rally to Protect Trans Health, at the White House, Washington, DC USA, 29 May 2019
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The state of Alabama has cited the Supreme Court’s decision striking down Roe v. Wade in its efforts to deny gender-affirming healthcare to young people. In a brief filed early this week, the state’s attorney general’s office echoed language in Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion ending the constitutional right to abortion in the U.S. The Alabama AG argued that gender-affirming treatments are not “deeply rooted in this nation’s history and tradition.”

“It is no surprise that Alabama and other extremely conservative states are going to take up that invitation as forcefully as they can,” Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said. “Justice Thomas’s concurrence was a declaration of war on groups already under attack, and we expect the hostility to be escalated.”

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