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These six new forms for minors and adults go over possible risks of treatment.
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Many transgender adults are grappling with the state's new health landscape after state boards issued new rules for care at the end of June.
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Since its signing, the law has experienced multiple legal challenges to its enforcement.
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Guests discuss Floridians who have lost their Medicaid coverage and a federal court blocking the state's ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care.
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The rules are related to providing transgender treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone-replacement therapy to children and adults, carrying out part of a new law championed by Gov. DeSantis.
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Lawyers for the state filed two notices that are first steps in asking the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn decisions by U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle.
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While the City Commission's nonbinding resolution does not carry the weight of law, it “shows individuals here in Gainesville and across the state that not everyone thinks like the people in Tallahassee,” Commissioner Reina Saco says.
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The latest ruling involved a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of two adults and two minors. An estimated 9,000 transgender people in Florida use Medicaid to fund their treatments.
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Physicians will be able to renew orders for puberty blockers and hormone therapy children and adults as long as no changes are made to the prescriptions. The Board of Medicine previously approved the rule.
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A federal judge has struck down Arkansas' 2021 ban on gender-affirming care for youth calling it unconstitutional and saying the state's experts were motivated by ideology, not science. Florida has a similar law on hold.