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Exploring the intersection of law, policy, and personal impact, Arkansas LGBT Politics curates the most significant developments shaping queer lives in the Natural State. From battle lines drawn over transgender healthcare bans to landmark court challenges, this tag digs into the laws, rulings, and political maneuvers that matter.

You’ll find up-to-the-minute coverage of the SAFE Act’s trajectory, ACLU challenges, Supreme Court influence, and how decisions at every level—from municipal ordinances to the 8th Circuit Court—reshape access, identity, and rights for Arkansas’s LGBTQ community.

For continual updates on Arkansas’s LGBT legal landscape—courts, laws, and the lives affected—you’ll only find it here, at JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics News.

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13 08, 2025

Federal Appeals Court Reinstates Arkansas Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

By |2025-08-14T00:17:59-07:00August 13th, 2025|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: , , , , , , |

By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS – LGBT Politics LITTLE ROCK, AR —  (August 13, 2025) — The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Arkansas may enforce its controversial 2021 ban on gender-affirming care for minors, reversing a lower court decision that had struck the law down as unconstitutional. Related [...]

21 07, 2021

Judge Blocks Arkansas GOP Trans Youth Ban on Healthcare Treatment

By |2025-08-13T23:31:33-07:00July 21st, 2021|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , |

LITTLE ROCK — (07-21-21) — U.S. District Judge James Moody in central Arkansas on Wednesday, issued a temporary injunction against the GOP Trans youth ban for healthcare that was scheduled to go into effect next week.  His injunction in the constitutional challenge to the state's first-of-its-kind ban on transgender youth health care treatment was met [...]

25 05, 2021

ACLU Sues Arkansas Over Transgender Youth Treatment Ban

By |2025-08-13T23:31:51-07:00May 25th, 2021|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

LAS VEGAS — (05-25-21) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the state of Arkansas to block a new anti-transgender law that bans doctors from providing gender reassignment surgeries and other treatments for transgender youth. In the lawsuit filed by the ACLU on Tuesday, says that the law will [...]

10 04, 2019

Mike Huckabee Says Gay Rights A Threat to America’s Morality

By |2025-08-13T23:32:40-07:00April 10th, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , , |

WASHINGTON, D.C — (04-10-19) — Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee claims that Gay rights are a threat to America's morality. That's what he told The Christian Post conservative news site. Huckabee says that LGBTQ equality is the “greatest threat” to America’s moral fiber. The former low ratings talk show host and father of White House [...]

3 02, 2019

Arkansas Supreme court rules city can’t enforce LGBT protections

By |2025-08-13T23:32:04-07:00February 3rd, 2019|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

LITTLE ROCK — (02-03-19) — Arkansas Supreme Court ruled last Thursday, that the city of Fayetteville can't enforce LGBT protections based on its ordinance banning discrimination on sexual orientation or gender identity. The state Supreme Court unanimously reversed a Washington County judge’s decision to allow Fayetteville to continue enforcing its anti-discrimination ordinance while the city [...]

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