The Arkansas Academy of Pediatrics opposed HB1570, the bill to ban healthcare for trans minors. If the medical board follows their lead and refuses to discipline doctors who provide care, there's no enforcement mechanism but patient lawsuits or a lawsuit by the Attorney General 
A lawsuit against a doctor who provided care in defiance of the law or a medical board that refused to discipline them would inevitably be escalated through the court system. If the court's ruling is consistent with Bostock, HB1570 cannot stand.
Interpreting section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act in light of Bostock's holding, hormone treatment and corrective surgical procedures that are available to one set of patients (which HB 1570 specifically provides) cannot be denied to another on the basis of sex stereotypes.
Furthermore, it appears that HB1570 leaves a loophole for a clever doctor to certify that their patient's sex steroid production is not "normal" (which is left undefined) and provide care anyway. There's another loophole in the next section too macabre for me to mention here.
All this is to say that HB1570 is a trash piece of legislation, written by people who know nothing about what they're doing and who didn't ask anyone who might, that should eventually fall in court. In the meantime there are ways doctors can fight back.
Important disclaimer: I am not a lawyer! But I’m a trans woman with a background in policy which means I know at least as much about this as the people who wrote it.
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