This photograph shows the logo of the American Civil Liberties Union. (KAREN BLEIER/AFP via Getty Images)
The law, passed as House Bill 68, will also ban biological men who identify as transgender women from participating in women's sports. Ohio Republicans overrode Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of the bill in January.
Freda Levenson, a legal director at the ACLU, said in a statement that the ban on "gender-affirming" procedures and treatments "will cause severe harm to transgender youth."
"These personal, private medical decisions should remain between families and doctors; they don’t belong to politicians," Levenson said.
The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, alleges the bill is "unconstitutional" because it combines two bills and violates the single-subject rule in the state's constitution, since the first part would bar transgender women from participating in women's sports, and the second would ban physicians from carrying out gender transition surgeries or providing puberty blockers to minors.
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A list of supplies that were described as "helpful during puberty" including puberty blockers. (Fox News Digital)
In December, DeWine vetoed the bill, arguing it was about "protecting human life." Before the veto, DeWine spoke with healthcare professionals — all of whom support puberty blockers for minors — as well as families with transgender children.
"I have also been told, by those that are now grown adults, that but for this care, they would have taken their lives when they were teenagers," DeWine said at the time. "Parents are making decisions about the most precious thing in their life, their child, and none of us should underestimate the gravity and the difficulty of those decisions."
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More conservative states have begun ramping up laws restricting both surgical and hormone blockers for minors. States such as Idaho, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Florida have gone a step further to criminalize such procedures, deeming it a felony to perform sex change surgeries on minors or provide them with any hormone-altering treatments.
Meanwhile, several more liberal states have created "shield laws" that protect these procedures and gender-transition drugs for transgender people and children. Those states include California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, New York, Vermont, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, Illinois and Massachusetts.
Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
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