Transgender minors in Montana will continue to have access to certain healthcare procedures following a decision issued Wednesday morning by the Montana Supreme Court. The Supreme Court upheld a September 2023 injunction granted by Missoula County District Court Judge Jason Marks that temporarily blocked Senate Bill 99,

The Montana Supreme Court is continuing to block a law that sought to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors while it goes through the courts.

The Montana Supreme Court has issued a ruling today (Wednesday, Dec. 11) declaring that SB 99, a 2023 Montana law that categorically bans life-saving gender-affirming care for transgender youth, is unconstitutional under the Montana state constitution’s privacy clause.

The state's justices agreed with a lower court judge who found the law likely violates the state's constitutional right to privacy.

Montana Supreme Court upholds a lower court ruling that allows minors to receive gender-affirming medical care

The Montana Supreme Court issued an opinion Wednesday that allows a lower court’s injunction blocking the 2023 law that bans gender-affirming care for minors to stay in place, agreeing with the court that the law on its face likely violates the right to privacy in the state constitution.

The Montana Supreme Court ruled to uphold a temporary block Senate Bill 99, the controversial bill from the 2023 legislative session that banned a slew of medical treatments.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case on Tennessee’s law banning gender-transition procedures for minors. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson compared the case to Loving v.

Those who sued to challenge the ban are likely to succeed in proving it violates their privacy rights, the court ruled.