Judge Sarah E. Geraghty, a justice for the Northern District of Georgia, blocked part of a law Sunday that prevents minors from receiving sex change hormones.
Geraghty, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, blocked the section of S.B. 140 that prevents minors from receiving hormone replacement treatment, allowing the section banning sex-change surgeries to stand, according to the order. She released the injunction in response to a lawsuit filed against the Georgia bill in July 2023 after hearing arguments in court starting on Aug. 11, according to WABE.
“[B]anning hormone replacement therapy effectively forecloses the availability of the course of treatment more generally. In short, the law remains a broad ban on hormone therapy for adolescents with gender dysphoria who have not yet begun such treatment,” Judge Geraghty said, according to 11Alive.
