In this moment, the future of our rights, our bodily autonomy, our freedom feels uncertain. What we do next will make a difference for decades to come.
Update: On November 13, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the preliminary injunction blocking Indiana’s ban on gender affirming care for transgender minors, holding that the plaintiffs were unlikely to succeed on the merits of their claims.
On September 27, 2023, the National Women’s Law Center joined an amicus brief to the Seventh Circuit, alongside GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and five additional organizations and law firm counsel Jenner & Block, in K.C. v. Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana. Our brief supports transgender young people, and their parents and doctors, who have challenged a new law in Indiana that aims to block access to medically necessary gender-affirming health care. We urge the appeals court to uphold the district court’s preliminary injunction, which blocks this law because it unlawfully discriminates based on sex by singling out transgender youth.