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Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has filed a lawsuit challenging new federal rules that clash with the state's attempts to restrict the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender people.
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Proposed bills in states from Florida to Montana would exclude transgender and nonbinary people from updating driver’s licenses, holding public office and accessing public restrooms.
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The Transgender American Veterans Association is suing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs two years after the department said it would provide gender-affirming surgery.
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At least 22 states have enacted bans on gender-affirming care for children, with most of them approved in the past year.
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Even in states where laws protect minors’ access to gender-affirming care, malpractice insurance premiums are keeping small and independent clinics from treating patients.
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PolitiFact FL: DeSantis’ claim that Sweden ‘shut down’ gender-affirming surgical care is 'Half True'Swedish health officials in 2022 issued guidelines limiting the use of puberty blockers, hormones and mastectomies for minors to "exceptional cases." These are recommendations, not law.
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U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle said he would try to deliver an opinion “as quick as I can” on law and rules prohibiting the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy to treat children for gender dysphoria.
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Testimony from a St. Johns County mother began the multiday trial by testifying that it would be “devastating” if her child could not get gender-affirming treatment.
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In doing so, the court left standing a lower court decision that upheld the state's ban on a therapy that the American Medical Association says "is not based on medical and scientific evidence."
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The Biden administration this week urged an appeals court to uphold a ruling that Florida violated federal law by blocking Medicaid coverage for transgender people seeking hormone therapy and puberty blockers.
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The governors square off in a first-of-its-kind debate Thursday. Let's compare the political rivals’ health care positions, showing how their policies helped — or hinder— the health of their states’ residents.
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Ron DeSantis’ record as Florida governor provides some clues to how he would change the health care landscape if elected president.