(Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)
(North Dakota Monitor) – A North Dakota doctor is appealing a district court judge’s ruling last fall that upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
South Central District Court Judge Jackson Lofgren in October found that the 2023 law, which makes it a crime to prescribe puberty blockers and other treatments to adolescents, does not violate the state constitution.
Attorneys representing the plaintiff, pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Luis Casas, said that they will be asking the North Dakota Supreme Court to review Lofgren’s decision.
They ultimately want the high court to find Lofgren used the wrong legal framework to analyze the suit, and to send the case back to him for reconsideration.
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