Sex reassignment surgery
In April, 2021, the Arkansas legislature override the governor's veto to enact a law banning health care providers from treating children under 18 with hormones, puberty blockers, or sex reassignment surgery, and from referring them to other providers. Similar bills have been proposed in at least 20 other states. (South Dakota's bill would make it a felony for healthcare providers to provide this care, and it includes an exception for to allow them to perform surgeries on intersex children meant to make them fit into the gender binary.) The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas sued the state, and a federal judge issued an injunction preventing the law from taking effect, saying the law would cause "irreparable harm" to minors if allowed to go into effect. Sex reassignment surgery is not performed on minors in Arkansas. The effect of puberty blockers is reversible.