The Montana Supreme Court is continuing to block a law that sought to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors while it goes through the courts.

The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a temporary injunction against the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth, becoming the first state supreme court in the nation to do so. “I will never understand why my representatives are working to strip me of my rights and the rights of other transgender kids,

The Montana Supreme Court has issued a ruling today (Wednesday, Dec. 11) declaring that SB 99, a 2023 Montana law that categorically bans life-saving gender-affirming care for transgender youth, is unconstitutional under the Montana state constitution’s privacy clause.

The state's justices agreed with a lower court judge who found the law likely violates the state's constitutional right to privacy.

Montana Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling that allows minors to receive gender-affirming medical care

The Montana Supreme Court issued an opinion Wednesday that allows a lower court’s injunction blocking the 2023 law that bans gender-affirming care for minors to stay in place, agreeing with the court that the law on its face likely violates the right to privacy in the state constitution.