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    Alabama is using the case that ended Roe to argue it can ban gender-affirming care

    by The Associated Press Jul 03, 2022 3 minutes

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youths.

    The case marks one of the first known instances in which a conservative state has tried to apply the abortion ruling to other realms, just as LGBTQ advocates and others were afraid would happen.

    Critics have expressed fear that the legal reasoning behind

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