BREAKING: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in another 2-1 ruling, keeps Kentucky's ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors in effect during appeal.

The ruling was issued by Judges Jeffrey Sutton and Amul Thapar in an unsigned order over Judge Helene White's dissent.

The lawyers opposing the ban cited immediate effects of the Kentucky law, as well as some state officials’ non-opposition to the law, as differences justifying a different outcome from the decision of the same panel to allow Tennessee’s ban to go in effect during the appeal of that law. Sutton and Thapar disagreed, concluding, “plaintiffs’ requested stay presents the same issues decided in [the Tennessee case]. We decline to lift the district court’s stay.”