Transgender

Josie felt like Florida lawmakers were threatening her health care and ability to live authentically at school. So she left. Many families of trans youth are plotting their exits as well.

"It’s hateful rhetoric that is legitimated by reference to a text that he and many other people find authoritative and divine rite, but that’s just a truth claim. That’s something that we have responsibility to interrogate and to think about its effects on people."

Republican Rep. Webster Barnaby, R-Deltona, compared transgender people to "mutants" as the Florida House prepares to take up a bill that would prevent transgender men and women from using bathrooms that don’t line up with their sex assigned at birth,

Florida's state attorneys have been wrangling with a request by the DeSantis’ administration to depose the chief of the Agency for Health Care Administration arguing that he should not have to testify because he is a high-ranking official.

One Tampa Bay area mom says she's preparing to move her family out of state if lawmakers make it harder for her daughter to access health care. But she also wants to fight for the families who can't.

Florida doctors could lose their medical licenses if they order puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgery for minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, under a Florida Board of Medicine rule that took effect.

Shannon Callahan said the bill will create a traumatic and confusing entry into 5th grade for her transgender son who she said is proud, but private about his gender identity.

Attorneys for a Broward County transgender high-school volleyball player argued that a U.S. District judge should reject a state motion to dismiss her case.

Transgender youth and the health workers who treat them were already concerned about restrictions state medical boards prepare to implement. Now there are more threats to access.

Florida lawmakers heard from a one-sided panel of medical professionals and advocates as they argued against gender affirming care for kids.

Florida's medical boards have voted to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Families with trans children and medical providers who care for them are worried about the impact.

Students are organizing a walk-out at the end of the month that will include other state public and private colleges and universities and high schools.