Attorneys for Georgia state officials Friday argued that a ban on certain gender-related medical treatments for inmates shouldn’t have been blocked, citing the US Supreme Court’s United States v. Skrmetti decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on certain treatments for transgender minors.
“In a post-Skrmetti world, we’ve learned just how unreliable the expert medical consensus really is,” John Thompson, with the Georgia Department of Law, told the Eleventh Circuit at oral argument.
The law, SB 185, is rational given debate around the medical necessity of hormone and sex change treatments, the state said. But Amanda Seals, representing a group of inmates, ...