It's another setback for Kentucky's transgender youth.

Last night, the sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Kentucky can keep banning gender affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against the state law proceed.

Senate Bill 150 became law earlier this year after the general Assembly overrode Governor Andy Bashir's veto.

Part of the law bans hormone therapies and puberty blockers for youth under 18.

Lawyers from the ACLU and the National Center for Lesbian Rights sued to stop that section of the law from being enforced on social media.

The ACLU of Kentucky said the decision, quote, ignores evidence from medical experts and the trial court who agree that this care is necessary, effective, appropriate and banning it undermines parents rights to direct the upbringing of their children, end quote.

Kentucky's attorney general and Republican candidate for governor, Daniel Cameron, applauded the court's decision on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Cameron said, quote, A federal court sided with my office in protecting the state's ban on experimental sex change treatments for kids.

Andy Beshear had vetoed the law.

He won't stand up for our law or our kids.

I will always defend both.

End quote.

Speaking at a campaign event for Cameron and Georgetown today, state Senate Majority Leader Damon Thayer accused Governor Bashir of lying about this issue.

We sat down with Andy Beshear.

He vetoed it.

We overrode the veto.

Amy, you're saying he really didn't mean what he said when he vetoed it.

He said that those kind of surgeries are taking place in Kentucky.

He lied.

They're taking place in Lexington and in Louisville.

And we put a stop to it because they sued it yesterday because Attorney General Daniel Cameron's vigorous defense.

Senator 150 is now the law of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Meanwhile, Senate Bill 150 is being challenged on a different fraud.

This time, the families of five transgender children and Fayette County have filed a class action lawsuit.

They call the bill's restrictions on classroom discussions about gender identity and sexual orientation and restrictions on student preferred pronoun and bathroom use unconstitutional.

Just fine.

Kentucky, a nonprofit representing Kentucky's LGBTQ citizens, says, quote, Such censorship about LGBTQ lives not only harms young people struggling with these issues, but also deprives all children of a central knowledge about diverse gender and sexual identities impeding their ability to become informed and empathetic adults.

And, quote, The Herald-Leader says this is the first lawsuit in the state to challenge the education components of Senate Bill 150.