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Yawner testimony concludes landmark trans rights trial, verdict tbd

Now, we wait.
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Jesus takes the wheel at trial over Arkansas's trans health care ban

Jesus and bottom surgery dominated the testimony Wednesday as attorneys for the state rolled out two formerly transgender people who described gender reassignment operations in graphic detail and said heavenly voices called them to return to the sexes of their birth.
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Arkansas calls controversial sociologist and former plastic surgeon to defend state's ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth

Two men with traditional views on the gender binary took the stand Tuesday to defend Act 626, despite plaintiff's protests that Mark Regnerus and Patrick Lappert have little to no pertinent experience or expertise. Only two more days of testimony are expected in the trial over whether state lawmakers' attempts to block doctors from providing gender-affirming medical care to minors is constitutional.

Mixed messages from the witness stand as trial on transgender health care ban resumes

A psychiatrist said doctors can be too quick to prescribe puberty blockers and hormones to transgender youth, but acknowledged these treatments are sometimes appropriate and that he's even prescribed them himself. As a paid witness for the state in its attempt to defend a ban on gender-affirming medical care, Dr. Stephen Levine was mostly a bust.
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Doctors and moms share dread about trans care ban in third day of trial

Two doctors who have treated trans youth in Arkansas, two mothers and Dylan Brandt himself testified Wednesday in the case of Brandt v Rutledge, a challenge to the ban on medical gender-affirming care for people under 18.

Proud dads' stories headline second day of trial over Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care

In testimony that should have come with Kleenex boxes and free hugs, the fathers talked about the learning curves they scaled to educate themselves and support their children through hormone treatments they said were literally life-saving.
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