The Montana Supreme Court temporarily blocked a ban on transgender medical procedures for minors this week, diverging from a growing national and international trend to restrict such treatments.
The ruling comes as the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to uphold a similar law from Tennessee and as the United Kingdom made efforts this week to ban minors from undergoing such treatments.
Justice Beth Baker authored the majority opinion Wednesday, justifying her decision on the basis that the Montana constitution provides robust rights to privacy in medical decision-making.
The law in question, Senate Bill 99, prevents…
