LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – An Arkansas law was upheld in a federal appeals court on Tuesday, putting the law into effect.

Act 626 of 2021, under the name “Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act,” forbids medical professionals in Arkansas from performing any medical or surgical procedures to alter or remove a minor’s physical characteristics of gender.

Four minors, their parents and two healthcare professionals filed the lawsuit against the Arkansas Attorney General and the Arkansas Medical Board, claiming that Act 626 violated the First and 14th Amendments to the Constitution.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held that since the Act classifies based upon age and medical procedure, not sex, it is proper. The opinion also pointed to a similar law in Tennessee that the Supreme Court upheld

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