Doctors Try to Shoot Down Arkansas Ban on Transgender Treatments for Minors

Attorneys push a cart laden with files in the complex case of Brandt v. Rutledge, which challenges the constitutionality of an Arkansas law banning transgender medical treatments for minors, as a trial begins on Oct. 17, 2022. Janice Hisle/The Epoch Times

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Two doctors testified on Oct. 17 in support of child transgender procedures as part of the opening day of the nation’s first federal court challenge of a statewide ban on the controversial treatments.

Transgender-identifying teens who were born female often seem “’over-the-moon’ happy” after mastectomies, as they see their bodies better “aligned” with a masculine gender identity, said Dr. Deanna Adkins, a North Carolina pediatric endocrinologist who has recommended these “top surgeries” for some of her patients.