Transgender rights

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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Florida is banning gender affirming care for minors among a series of anti-LGBTQ+ bills signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration is asking a federal appeals court to shield Jason Weida, Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) secretary, from having to testify in a legal challenge to a rule prohibiting Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for transgender 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,

The lawsuit, filed by families in St. Johns, Alachua, Duval and Orange counties against Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo and the state boards of medicine and osteopathic medicine, claims Florida’s prohibition against puberty-blocking hormones and gender-affirming surgeries for minors violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

Two House Republicans filed a proposal Friday that would make it illegal for doctors to provide treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender minors.

A prohibition against puberty blocking hormones and gender-affirming surgeries for minors in Florida was tightened further.

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The codes used by U.S. medical providers to bill insurers haven’t caught up to the needs of trans patients or even international standards. Consequently, doctors are forced to get creative with what codes they use, or patients spend hours fighting big out-of-pocket bills.

Suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren has taken the Florida governor to court to get his job back, citing the First Amendment.