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Six weeks after Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that places heavy restrictions and outright bans on gender-affirming care in Florida, many transgender Floridians feel uncertainty and dread about their future in the state. Senate Bill 254, signed into law on May 17th, has been criticized for its broad restrictions on healthcare for the estimated 94,900 transgender people who live in Florida.
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The state is appealing two rulings this month by a federal judge that rejected efforts to limit treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender people.
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A federal judge has struck down Florida’s prohibition against Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care, calling the policy 'invidious discrimination."
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Physicians will be able to renew orders for puberty blockers and hormone therapy for children and adults as long as no changes are made to the prescriptions.
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Although the injunction only applies to the families involved in the suit, lawyers call it an “important initial step” to get the ban overturned.
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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.
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"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."
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A bill that limits pronouns teachers can use is raising concerns for parents of transgender childrenShannon 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.