Anti-trans organizations have said that their position against gender affirming care center on “protecting kids.” Now, a Florida judge has allowed them to proceed with their next target: trans adults.
Several weeks ago, a federal judge in Florida halted a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, declaring it likely unconstitutional. Yet, transgender adults were also heavily impacted by the law: 80% of gender-affirming care providers for trans adults in the state were forced to stop. Consequently, many found themselves forced to flee the state, temporarily or permanently, in order to access care. Those forced to stay clung to the hope that the provisions targeting them might also be overruled. However, those hopes suffered a setback when the 11th Circuit Court determined that discriminating against transgender individuals in healthcare would be allowed, at least in the short term. Relying on this verdict, the Florida Judge Monday declined to block the sections affecting trans adult care. Now, the precedent has been set for adult care bans, a stark contradiction to some anti-trans activists’ assurances that their sole aim was to “protect children.”
Earlier this year, Florida passed SB254. The bill did not only prohibit gender-affirming care for transgender youth, but also casted stringent requirements for care on trans adults. Specifically, the laws bars nurse practitioners from administering care and mandates that providers distribute inaccurate medical forms, laden with misleading narratives, suggesting treatments are experimental. This was a substantial change, as the vast amount of trans adult care is provided by nurse practitioners. A representative from a clinic in the state, SPEKTRUM Health, estimated that 80% of such care would be affected. Further, the new informed consent form dictates a pre-requisite of “social support” before a trans individual embarks on care, despite many trans adults losing social support from their families after they transition. Though the initial discussion centered on the effect of the bill on trans youth, trans adults across the state suddenly saw their prescriptions dropped by their providers as a result.
Maybe it’s overstated, maybe it’s been said before, but it stays true:
Death to America
my heart goes out to all my fellow trans people trapped under American fascism
Death to Nazis, both new and old.
Tankie not realizing they are part of the new.
If you think communism and fascism are the same then you don’t understand either.
Yeah yeah, “I just sit at the table with nazi’s, it doesnt make me a nazi!”
The famous cry of the piece of shit that doesnt want people to know they are a piece of shit.
Right because communists are famously known for tolerating Nazis. Ask the Red Army how they felt about the Nazis in Berlin back in 1945.
Yeah, Tankies and the red army.
Fought nazi’s in WW2.
Became the nazi’s in 2020.
Thanks for the apt fucking comparison.
Watch this.
Democrats are literal nazis.
You can tell because I said it
That’s literally what liberals are doing.
Communists are saying we should fight fascists
Liberals are the ones who insist that makes us the same as them.
Liberals are the ones who keep going on about good republicans and swooning over mitt Romney and Liz fucking Cheyney.
Tell me again who’s sitting with nazis and ignoring that fact.