The attorney general of Arkansas says he will fight “as long as it takes” to restore a law protecting children from undergoing transgender procedures after it was blocked this week by a federal judge.

AG Tim Griffin pushed back on the judge’s claim that the law was unconstitutional.

Griffin, a former Republican congressman and lieutenant governor, expressed his disappointment regarding the ruling made by U.S. District Judge Jay Moody. The ruling permanently halted a law that aimed to prohibit doctors from administering hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-change surgeries to minors.

“I am disappointed in the decision that prevents our state from protecting our children against dangerous medical experimentation under the moniker of ‘gender transition.’ Unfortunately, Judge Moody misses what is widely understood across the United States and in the United Kingdom and European countries: There is no scientific evidence that any child will benefit from these procedures, while the consequences are harmful and often permanent. I will continue fighting as long as it takes to stop providers from sterilizing children,” Griffin said in a statement following the ruling.

Arkansas will appeal the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The case will be assigned to a panel of three judges on the court in a random manner. Among the 11 Article III judges in the court, ten were appointed by Republican presidents, while former President Barack Obama appointed one of them.

Moody, the Obama appointee, was the one who blocked the law from taking effect.

“Rather than protecting children or safeguarding medical ethics, the evidence showed that the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients and that, by prohibiting it, the state undermined the interests it claims to be advancing,” he wrote.

Federal judges in Indiana and Florida have issued injunctions preventing the complete enforcement of their respective laws, whereas Alabama’s law has faced partial obstruction. Furthermore, Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has taken similar legal action against Tennessee, filing a lawsuit regarding its law intended to safeguard children from procedures with long-lasting consequences.