Gender-Affirming Care

The Cleveland Clinic reached an agreement with the DOJ to halt gender-affirming care for minors.

The hospital will stop prescribing gender-affirming medicines to patients, including those who are over 18 and minors who were receiving care, before a statewide ban on gender-affirming care for minors went into effect.

Ohio has a similar law to the one upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, and supporters and opponents have been watching for this ruling.

Ohio’s House Bill 68 has been on hold because of a federal court's injunction.

The ban on gender-affirming care for minors, which was part of the Ohio law that also banned trans athletes in girls’ sports, was ruled unconstitutional last month.

The law banning gender transition treatments for minors is headed to the Ohio Supreme Court for a final decision.

Brown, who has held his Senate seat since 2007 and broadly supported LGBTQ+ rights throughout his career, is running against Republican businessman Bernie Moreno in a hotly contested swing state contest.

On Tuesday, a Franklin County judge upheld a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

A lawsuit filed in March in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas sought to block House Bill 68 from going into effect on schedule, and at all.

The state law banning gender transition treatments for minors is on trial in a Franklin County court. House Bill 68 didn’t take effect in April at the order of the judge hearing this case