“Florida has adopted a statute and rules that ban gender-affirming care for minors even when medically appropriate,” U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle wrote in his decision. “The ban is unconstitutional.”
In his decision striking down Flordia’s legislation, Hinkley interpreted the legislation, and Desantis, as anti-transgender. “Transgender opponents are of course free to hold their beliefs. But they are not free to discriminate against transgender individuals just for being transgender,” the judge wrote.
Gov. Ron DeSantis , at podium, speaks before signing a child welfare bill, Tuesday, April 12, 2022, at Miami Dade College in Miami. The bill increased benefits for foster care parents, guardians, and children. physicians are not allowed to prescribe puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to children. It also prevented physicians from performing invasive, irreversible procedures, such as double mastectomies, and sex changes, including phalloplasty and vaginoplasty, on minors.
“It is time that these American medical institutions follow the science and the lead of our European professional colleagues and cease to promote protocols that harm children, including the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex,” ACPeds wrote in its “