A new Florida law restricting health care for transgender people can still be applied to adults while it is being challenged in court, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Judge Robert Hinkle, who previously blocked the law’s enforcement on behalf of minors, ruled that adults seeking to expand his injunction haven’t proven they would be irreparably harmed until the case is resolved.
The law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in May bans any transgender treatment for minors and requires transgender adults give consent to treatment in person and with a physician present. Advocates say that is a problem because much of the care is prescribed by nurse practitioners and/or through telehealth – and that it’s too hard for many patients to get or get to in-person appointments with physicians.
Such small government telling adults what they can and can’t do with their own bodies.
Yeah, small enough to fit into uteri and to tell us that we can’t read, specific individual books and to mandate which bathroom we use and to contradict doctors on what medical care is. Very small government there.
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Judges are a fucking joke.
Conservatism is bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, misogyny and antisemitism. At its core, that’s all it is.
Teach your children why it’s wrong to do business or keep relationships with conservatives. Marginalize hate by marginalizing the hate group.
It was pretty obvious Florida’s laws were not for protecting anyone and were purely designed to be transphobic to appeal to a rabid bigoted conservative base.
Not just the base. There are lots of people out there simply trusting authority. Stuff like this appeals to those people, too. They don’t think very well by themselves.
I’m proud my city just became a sanctuary city for gender affirming care. Red states are getting scarier day by day.
