Gender-Affirming Care

A group including transgender advocates, health care professionals, and attorneys gathered recently for town hall meetings in Tampa and St. Petersburg.

Although the injunction only applies to the families involved in the suit, lawyers call it an “important initial step” to get the ban overturned.

The judge determined plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their claims that the ban violates transgender rights and parents' ability to make healthcare decisions for their children. The state will likely appeal.

People have given $200,000 since January to fundraisers on GoFundMe started by trans people seeking to leave Florida, according to data from the platform.

On this week's Florida Roundup, we discuss how Florida’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors creates obstacles for adults to access treatment. And, former Congressman David Jolly weighs in on Florida’s culture wars.

Transgender patients say their doctors have been holding off on prescribing treatments as they wait for new consent forms. Medical boards are proposing to allow them to continue for now.

The Joint Rules and Legislative Committee of the medical boards will meet Thursday in Tampa.

Much of the attention surrounding transgender health care in Florida lately has focused on minors. But a new law that criminalizes providing gender-affirming care to most children is also disrupting access for trans adults.

The Health & Human Services Committee was directed to investigate the standards of care for gender dysphoria adopted by Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Florida Psychiatric Association.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs say they're being denied access to medically necessary treatments. They expect the judge will rule on this case and another suit challenging the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors at the same time.

LGBTQ advocates in Central Florida have started a fund that will help transgender people get gender affirming care in other states.

The parents of three transgender children filed the suit. They did not appear during the hearing.