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LINK Florida sued over bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth | CNN Politics

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Four families in Florida sued the state on Thursday over new rules prohibiting gender-affirming care for transgender youth, arguing the bans violate the US Constitution and should be thrown out.

The two new rules from Florida’s Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine prohibit medical professionals in the state from providing gender-affirming care to minors in the state with gender dysphoria, including by administering puberty blockers, providing cross-sex hormone therapy and performing “sex reassignment surgeries, or any other surgical procedures, that alter primary or secondary sexual characteristics.”

The rules provide an exception to the hormone therapy and puberty blocker provisions for minors that were undergoing such treatments prior to the effective date of the rules. The Board of Medicine’s rule went into effect on March 16 and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine’s rule goes into effect March 28.

The plaintiffs in the case are four anonymous transgender minors in Florida and their parents. Only one of the plaintiffs – a 10-year-old trans girl – had been receiving some form of gender-affirming care at the time that the case was brought, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in a federal district court in Tallahassee.

The plaintiffs are being represented by several leading LGBTQ rights groups, including the Human Rights Campaign and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. They name the state’s surgeon general and the two medical boards and its members as defendants.

“The transgender medical bans are not narrowly tailored to further a compelling government interest, substantially related to any important governmental interest, or even rationally related to a governmental interest. Accordingly, the transgender medical bans violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the lawsuit states, referring to the US Constitution.

CNN has reached out to the state for comment on the lawsuit.

LGBTQ advocates and many physicians regard gender-affirming care as medically necessary, evidence-based care that uses a multidisciplinary approach to help a person transition from their assigned gender – the one the person was designated at birth – to their affirmed gender, the gender by which one wants to be known. Major medical associations agree that gender-affirming care is clinically appropriate for children and adults with gender dysphoria.

Though the care is highly individualized, some children may decide to use reversible puberty suppression therapy. This part of the process may also include hormone therapy that can lead to gender-affirming physical change. Surgical interventions, however, are not typically done on children and many health care providers do not offer them to minors.

Lawmakers in Florida are currently considering legislation that would codify the rules that are now being challenged in court. A number of other GOP-led states have already put similar bans on their books, including Georgia and Iowa, which enacted bans on gender-affirming care this week.

Tennessee, Mississippi, Utah and South Dakota have also enacted such bans this year. Meanwhile, bans passed in recent years in Alabama and Arkansas have been temporarily blocked by federal courts.

In pushing the health care bans, Republicans have argued that decisions around such care should be made after an individual becomes an adult, though lawmakers in some states have sought to push bans as far back as the age of 26.

(I don't think they will be able to prove a compelling state interest that will be able to supersede parental rights to oversee their child's physical and mental health needs.)

snytiger6 9 Mar 24
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I hope those parents win the lawsuit. It might be good for Florida to go back to this century.

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10 years old. Fucking child abuse. If they can decide to be the opposite sex, they can decide to be a soldier so send 10 year old to Ukraine to fight and die for NATO expansion. Fair enough no? Kids are obviously now mature enough to make decisions like that. What 10 year old wouldn't want to play soldier for real?
I predict these "gender-affirming care for transgender youth" places will be the ones getting sued in the near future.
I have spent many years in Thailand which is full of ladyboys and tomboys. The majority of ladyboys get a boob job, but only a minority get the cut and tuck. The thing about Thailand, no-one gives a fuck. It's live and let live. Those who do get the op usually get it in their early twenties. A good friend of mine, Bill, has the best tits in town. She still has her meat and tackle, was intending to go the full op but CHANGED HER MIND as she got older. Puberty is a time of turmoil for many, was for me, and what I thought at 10 was different from 13, different from 20.
I fully support government intervention here as it stop dickhead parents from allowing children to mutilate their bodies when they are not mature enough to make that kind of decision. All parents have to do is love their kids, which means protecting them from themselves. There should be a mandatory wait of 5 years before any genital changing surgery regardless of age, a cooling off period as these operations are irreversible. And no government assistance, let them save up for their own operations (I wonder if any kids contemplating this procedure would still be as keen if they knew they had to pay for it? Or would they rather spend the money on a new iPhone?)
Can you imagine supporting your 10 year old in their decision in having this surgery, only for them to regret it when adult? I know I could never forgive myself and my kid would be fully justified in calling me a failed parent, perhaps even suing me for allowing it to happen.
Kids have zero voice, very few rights so rely on adults to speak up in their interests. These are not medical surgeries, they are cosmetic and should be criminal when bodies/ mind are not yet fully formed. I do believe in many medical enterprises nowadays the Hippocratic Oath has been abandoned in favour of profit.

PS Another ladyboy I know is around 60 and lived as a woman all her life. No ops or puberty blockers, very well respected and I would even describe her as elegant and poised. It's whats inside that is important, not visual aesthetics which is basically what surgery is all about. Not being happy and rejecting the body you have is a mental issue. How many people do you know who were extremely happy with resulting cosmetic surgery? Ones I have talked to are not satisfied and plan on more surgeries, chasing their ideal. They will never be happy.

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