Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding a ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a challenge to Oklahoma’s ban brought by transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers.

In response to the death of 16-year-old Owasso High School student Nex Benedict following an assault in the school restroom, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Oklahoma, and Lambda Legal issued the following joint statement.

Lawyers representing transgender adolescents and their parents will urge the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to reverse a lower court’s denial of an injunction of SB 613, an Oklahoma law banning medical care for trans youth, at a hearing Wednesday, January 17 at 9:00 a.m. MT.

Lawyers representing transgender adolescents and their parents urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to reverse a lower court ruling that denied a preliminary injunction to block enforcement of Oklahoma’s discriminatory law banning gender-affirming medical care.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma has rejected a request from families and a medical provider to temporarily block an Oklahoma law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth while the case proceeded.

The ACLU of Oklahoma, the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, and the law firm Jenner & Block LLP announced today the filing of a binding agreement with the Oklahoma Attorney General's office not to enforce SB 613.

Families, transgender adolescents, and their medical providers are challenging a new law criminalizing age-appropriate medical care for transgender adolescents signed by Governor Kevin Stitt this week.

Freedom Oklahoma and ACLU of Oklahoma Demand the Legislature, Governor stop using the lives of trans kids for political fodder.