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Aug 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has blocked the state of Georgia from enforcing a new Republican-backed law that bars doctors from providing hormone replacement therapy to treat gender dysphoria in transgender children under age 18.

U.S. District Judge Sarah Geraghty in Atlanta issued an injunction on Sunday after finding that a group of parents and transgender minors who challenged the law would likely succeed in establishing that the prohibition on hormone replacement therapy violated a provision of the U.S. Constitution.

The ruling marked the latest instance of a federal judge blocking a law banning medical procedures for transgender youth.

The law, which took effect on July 1, also prevents minors from receiving gender-affirming surgeries, though that provision was not at issue in the case before Geraghty.

A group of families and an organization called TransParent sued in federal court, arguing that the prohibition on hormone replacement therapy violated a minor’s rights under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment to equal protection under the law.

Geraghty, appointed to the bench by Democratic President Joe Biden, agreed, saying the ban amounts to a sex-based classification as it “places a special burden on transgender minors because their gender identity does not match their birth sex.”

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