A new Florida law banning gender-affirming care for minors is getting a lot of attention nationally as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for president, but it's also impacting transgender adults.

The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.

Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.

    • rbhfd@lemmy.world
      122·
      11 months ago

      Should doctors be forced to offer the method for which the scientific consensus is that it’s the best treatment for that issue?

      Definitely!

      The high rates of suicide are because of lack of treatment or starting too late. Not because of gender affirming treatment.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      62·
      11 months ago

      Doctors that do not operate on evidence-based best practice should lose their licenses, regardless of what the law states.

      That includes doctors who believe nonsense about gender identity being “mental illness” not deserving of appropriate (gender affirming) treatment