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The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals denied rehearing Tuesday of a case challenging Indiana’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
The denial means the ban remains in effect while litigation challenging the law is still pending before the U.S. District Court in Indianapolis.
The case has been stayed pending the results of United States v. Skrmetti, a similar case out of Tennessee that is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
That case challenges Tennessee’s law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for minors.
Indiana has a similar law. It prohibits physicians and other practitioners from knowingly providing gender-transition procedures to a minor, and from aiding or abetting another physician or practitioner to do so.
The procedures banned by the statute include the use of puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgery.
In the Indiana case, federal appeals Judges Kenneth Ripple and Michael Brennan voted against giving the case a second look. Judge Candace Jackson-Akiwumi voted for a rehearing.
“This is a HUGE win for Hoosiers and means this commonsense law, which protects our kids from dangerous, experimental treatments, remains in effect! We will continue fighting to ensure it stays that way,” Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita posted on X.
The ACLU of Indiana told The Indiana Lawyer it is looking at all available next steps.
The case is K.C., et al. v. Individual Members of the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana, et al., 23-2366.
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