{"id":1172,"date":"2025-08-08T03:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmeacne.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2025-08-08T03:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T03:37:37","slug":"the-federal-court-has-upheld-oklahomas-law-prohibiting-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-sac-924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"The federal court has upheld Oklahoma&#8217;s law prohibiting gender-affirming care for minors. Sac 924"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A federal appeals court upheld an Oklahoma law banning gender-affirming care for minors, citing a June Supreme Court decision to uphold a similar law in Tennessee. Oklahoma&#8217;s Senate Bill 613, signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt in 2023, makes it a felony for healthcare workers to provide treatments including puberty-blocking drugs and hormones to affirm a minor&#8217;s perception of their gender or biological sex, if that perception is inconsistent with the minor&#8217;s biological sex. The ACLU, Lambda Legal, and the ACLU of Oklahoma represented the plaintiffs, who claimed the state lawmakers adopted the law with discriminatory intent. A federal judge in Tulsa declined to stop S.B. 613 from taking effect in 2023, stating that transition-related care for young people is an area in ongoing medical and policy debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Relax Every Day SacDepSpa #924\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hzWLn71lrOQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court upheld an Oklahoma law banning gender-affirming care for minors, citing a June Supreme Court decision to uphold a similar law in Tennessee. Oklahoma&#8217;s Senate Bill 613, signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt in 2023, makes it a felony for healthcare workers to provide treatments including puberty-blocking drugs and hormones to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[23,31,146,154],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sac-dep-spa","tag-acne","tag-blackheads","tag-pimple","tag-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennyacne.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}