The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday upheld an Oklahoma law that bans gender-affirming care for minors in the case Poe et. al. v. Drummond et. al .

The court affirmed the lower court’s ruling in favor of the law, finding no evidence that the bill was enacted with discriminatory intent towards transgender minors or their families. The court looked into the “deeply rooted” analysis test under Dobbs v. Jackson and also found that the ability for parents to obtain gender-affirming care for their children was not “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history or tradition.” The court relied heavily on the rationale laid out in the recent US Supreme Court case, US v. Skrmetti , which upheld a similar Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The court stated the

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