The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina is withdrawing its lawsuit challenging the state’s law that bans gender-affirming care following court rulings supporting similar bans in other states.

“This was a heartbreaking decision, and the legal team remains committed to the rights of transgender and non-binary South Carolinians and their access to gender affirming medical care,” the ACLU said Oct. 14 in a statement to The Post and Courier.

S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson , who has been on the other side of the lawsuit, said he was “proud to aggressively defend South Carolina’s law and will continue to do so if necessary.”

The federal lawsuit was filed in August 2024 by Sterling Misanin of Charleston and transgender families across the state who said their care was halte

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