On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) urged the Ohio Supreme Court to review a lower court judge’s temporary restraining order against the state’s gender-affirming care ban for transgender youth, arguing that the decision to block the ban was overly broad.

In March, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the state over the gender-affirming care ban, House Bill 68, on behalf of two 12-year-old transgender girls in Ohio, asserting that HB 86 violated sections of the Ohio Constitution.

“The ban on gender-affirming care will cause severe harm to transgender youth. These personal, private medical decisions should remain between families and doctors; they don’t belong to politicians,” Freda Levenson, legal director at the ACLU of Ohio, said in a statement as the lawsuit was filed in March. “H.B. 68 violates the Ohio Constitution in multiple ways. We will fight in court to ensure that trans youth and their parents can access critically important, lifesaving healthcare without government intrusion.”

Last week, Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Michael Holbrook issued a temporary injunction........

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