Transgender rights

A federal judge in Tampa blocked a new Biden administration health-care rule that would clash with Florida’s attempts to restrict treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender people.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has filed a lawsuit challenging new federal rules that clash with the state's attempts to restrict the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender people.

Even as the state and others impose restrictions, people in need of housing have a home.

COMMENTARY Florida's orgy of homophobic lawmaking seeks to make LGBTQ people invisible in the 21st century — just as Cuba's Fidel Castro did in the 20th.

A federal judge said he will rule sometime after the holidays on whether DeSantis, the Legislature and the Department of Health deliberately targeted transgender people with the new law or whether the law simply imposed reasonable restrictions to protect the public.

Florida's state athletic board fined Monarch High School on Tuesday, placing the Coconut Creek school on probation after a transgender student played on the girls volleyball team, a violation of a controversial law enacted by DeSantis and the Republican-majority Legislature.

The peaceful protest at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek came after the school's principal and four staff members were reassigned over allegations that a transgender student was allowed to play on a girls' volleyball team.

In what could fuel a new round of legislative battles about gender identity, a House Republican on Tuesday filed a bill that would place restrictions on government agencies in the use of personal pronouns.

A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit challenging a 2021 Florida law banning transgender female students from playing on women’s and girls’ sports teams.

The lawsuit challenges a new law that banned doctors from providing treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty blockers to children.

The 20 gender-affirming care bans states like Florida have passed are undergoing intense legal scrutiny and testing federal courts in new ways, setting up battles that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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