South Central Judicial District Judge Jackson Lofgren presides over a trial to determine the constitutionality of North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors on Feb. 3, 2025. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)

BISMARCK, N.D. ( North Dakota Monitor ) — A judge has upheld a North Dakota law that bans gender-affirming care for minors.

South Central District Court Judge Jackson Lofgren wrote in a Wednesday order that the 2023 law that makes it a crime to prescribe puberty blockers and other treatments to adolescents does not violate the state constitution.

Lofgren presided over a seven-day court trial in February that included testimony from doctors and transgender teens and their parents.

In his 85-page order, Lofgren writes that there is “legitimate ongoing debate regarding

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