A federal appeals court found Tuesday that banning child sex changes does not violate parents’ rights, days after another court came to the same conclusion.
The full Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an injunction blocking Arkansas’ ban on sex change procedures for minors Tuesday in an 8-2 decision. Oklahoma’s ban was likewise upheld by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 6.
Both cases cite the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, which found Tennessee’s similar law did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The appeals courts went further by rejecting parental rights claims not addressed in the Supreme Court’s ruling.
HUGE: The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals just reversed a district court injunction blocking an Arkansas law that protects children from sex change interventions.
This is a massive win! pic.twitter.com/J8gr0wlXrd
— Do No Harm (@donoharm) August 12, 2025
“Given the two parallel currents in this Nation’s history and tradition—first, states can prohibit medical treatments for adults and children, and second, parents cannot automatically exempt their children from regulations—this court does not find a deeply rooted right of parents to exempt their children from regulations reasonably prohibiting gender transition procedures,” the Eight Circuit majority held.
The Tenth Circuit held that “our Nation does not have a deeply rooted history of affirmative access to medical treatment the government reasonably prohibited, regardless of the parent-child relationship.”
“I applaud the court’s decision and am pleased that children in Arkansas will be protected from experimental procedures,” Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin wrote on X.
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