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Providers halt services after court allows Florida to enforce ban on transgender care for minors
Read full article: Providers halt services after court allows Florida to enforce ban on transgender care for minorsA federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida law banning gender-affirming care can be enforced while a legal challenge plays out.
Unions urge appeals court to side with Florida teacher over pronoun law
Read full article: Unions urge appeals court to side with Florida teacher over pronoun lawAccusing Florida of “dangerous political theater,” state and national teachers unions have urged an appeals court to side with a transgender Hillsborough County teacher who challenged a law requiring educators to use pronouns that align with their sex assigned at birth.
Things to know about the gender-affirming care case as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
Read full article: Things to know about the gender-affirming care case as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh inThe Supreme Court is planning to weigh in on whether states can ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
Orlando-based Spektrum Health closing Melbourne office, cites ‘anti-trans legislation’
Read full article: Orlando-based Spektrum Health closing Melbourne office, cites ‘anti-trans legislation’SPEKTRUM Health, which bills itself as the state’s largest remaining clinic focusing primarily on gender affirming care, announced Tuesday that they will close their location in Melbourne.
Florida mother fears her family will be devastated as trial on trans health care ban begins
Read full article: Florida mother fears her family will be devastated as trial on trans health care ban beginsA Florida mother tearfully testified that her family could be torn apart if the state's ban on trans health care for children is allowed to take effect.
Bud Light parent says US market share stabilizing after transgender promotion cost sales
Read full article: Bud Light parent says US market share stabilizing after transgender promotion cost salesBud Light’s parent company expressed confidence Thursday that its U.S. market share has stabilized after a promotion with a transgender influencer cost it sales.
Trans adults seek to block new Florida health care law
Read full article: Trans adults seek to block new Florida health care lawCiting a “crisis of availability” of care, transgender people are asking a federal judge to block a new state law making it more difficult for trans adults to access hormone-replacement therapy and surgery.
In some states with laws on transgender bathrooms, officials may not know how they will be enforced
Read full article: In some states with laws on transgender bathrooms, officials may not know how they will be enforcedU.S. states with laws restricting what bathrooms transgender kids can use in public schools are wrestling with how those laws will be enforced.
Federal judge strikes down Florida’s ban on Medicaid funding for transgender treatment
Read full article: Federal judge strikes down Florida’s ban on Medicaid funding for transgender treatmentA federal judge has struck down Florida rules championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis restricting Medicaid coverage for transgender treatments.
Judge rules against Florida pediatricians in transgender care records subpoena
Read full article: Judge rules against Florida pediatricians in transgender care records subpoenaA federal judge has rejected an initial request to block a Florida House effort to obtain internal communications about how the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics developed standards of care for children diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
‘Gender identity is real:’ Federal judge blocks Florida transgender care law
Read full article: ‘Gender identity is real:’ Federal judge blocks Florida transgender care lawA federal judge is blocking parts of a new Florida law blocking gender-affirming care for transgender youths — but only for some of the parties in the lawsuit.
Parents sue to block Florida law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors
Read full article: Parents sue to block Florida law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minorsA group of parents and their transgender children asked a federal court Wednesday to block a Florida law signed hours earlier by Gov. Ron DeSantis that bans gender-affirming care for minors.
DeSantis signs bills aimed at transgender people, pronouns at Christian school in Tampa
Read full article: DeSantis signs bills aimed at transgender people, pronouns at Christian school in TampaWith a Tampa Christian school as a backdrop, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a raft of education and health bills Wednesday, including several bills considered to be anti-transgender.
Florida lawmakers pass transgender treatment ban for children
Read full article: Florida lawmakers pass transgender treatment ban for childrenTeeing up the issue for Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida lawmakers on Thursday passed a plan that would prevent doctors and other health care providers from offering treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender minors.
Bud Light boosts spending in US to counter sales declines
Read full article: Bud Light boosts spending in US to counter sales declinesBud Light’s parent company said Thursday it will triple its marketing spending in the U.S. this summer as it tries to boost sales that plummeted after the brand partnered with a transgender influencer.
Florida Senate panel backs transgender bathroom bill
Read full article: Florida Senate panel backs transgender bathroom billA key Senate committee on Tuesday approved a scaled-back proposal aimed at requiring transgender men and women to use restrooms that line up with their sex assigned at birth, as protesters marched to the Capitol to speak out against bills targeting the LGBTQ community.
Popular Central Florida restaurant stops sale of Bud Light amid transgender controversy
Read full article: Popular Central Florida restaurant stops sale of Bud Light amid transgender controversyA popular restaurant in Central Florida is no longer serving Bud Light after the company has received backlash for partnering with a transgender TikTok influencer.
Florida lawmaker urged to apologize for calling transgender people ‘demons’
Read full article: Florida lawmaker urged to apologize for calling transgender people ‘demons’Equality Florida, the state’s LGBTQ civil rights organization, is demanding Florida lawmaker State Rep. Webster Barnaby formally retract his words after he called transgender people “imps” and “mutants” and “demons.”
Ex-pro wrestler, now school official, accused of transphobia
Read full article: Ex-pro wrestler, now school official, accused of transphobiaA Georgia school board member, who is also a retired professional wrestler, is accused of verbally harassing a transgender woman in the industry at a Los Angeles fan event.
Florida Senate Republicans OK treatment ban for trans minors, restrictions for trans adults
Read full article: Florida Senate Republicans OK treatment ban for trans minors, restrictions for trans adultsThe Florida Senate on Tuesday passed a plan that would bar doctors and other health-care providers from offering treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender minors.
‘We always existed:’ LGBTQ community gathers for Transgender Day of Visibility amid controversies
Read full article: ‘We always existed:’ LGBTQ community gathers for Transgender Day of Visibility amid controversiesAllies and members of the LGBTQ community gathered together all across the city as many observed International Transgender Day of Visibility.
Florida’s transgender treatment rules draw court challenge
Read full article: Florida’s transgender treatment rules draw court challengeFour families filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging rules adopted by Florida medical boards that prohibit doctors from providing gender-affirming treatment such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender children, arguing the rules intrude on “parents’ fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their adolescent children.”
Florida lawmakers target treatments for transgender youths
Read full article: Florida lawmakers target treatments for transgender youthsTwo House Republicans filed a proposal Friday that would make it illegal for doctors to provide treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender minors.
Transgender Missouri inmate executed for fatal stabbing
Read full article: Transgender Missouri inmate executed for fatal stabbingA Missouri inmate has been put to death for a 2003 killing, becoming what is believed to be the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. Amber McLaughlin was put to death Tuesday night, hours after Republican Gov. Mike Parson declined a clemency request.
US court back Florida school district in transgender bathroom fight
Read full article: US court back Florida school district in transgender bathroom fightAfter a five-year legal battle, a sharply divided federal appeals court Friday upheld a St. Johns County School Board policy that prevented a transgender male student from using boys’ bathrooms at a high school.
Florida medical boards block treatments for transgender minors
Read full article: Florida medical boards block treatments for transgender minorsDoctors will no longer be allowed to provide treatments such as puberty-blocking medications, hormone therapy and surgery to transgender people younger than 18, under rules approved Friday by the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
US appeals court: Beauty pageant can bar trans contestants
Read full article: US appeals court: Beauty pageant can bar trans contestantsA federal appellate court says a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing, because including her could interfere with the message the pageant has said it wants to send about "what it means to be a woman.”.
Florida Board of Medicine panel OKs restricting gender-affirming treatment for teens
Read full article: Florida Board of Medicine panel OKs restricting gender-affirming treatment for teensA Florida Board of Medicine panel signed off on a draft rule Friday that would restrict doctors from providing gender-affirming treatment to children and adolescents.
‘I got so much support:’ Orlando’s first transgender homecoming queen graduates high school
Read full article: ‘I got so much support:’ Orlando’s first transgender homecoming queen graduates high schoolThe Orlando teenager who made national news when she became her school’s first transgender homecoming queen has graduated high school.
Florida agency looks to deny gender affirming treatments for transgendered people
Read full article: Florida agency looks to deny gender affirming treatments for transgendered peopleThe Florida Agency for Health Care Administration issued a report Thursday that could set the stage for the Medicaid program to deny coverage for treatments such as puberty-blocking medication and hormone therapy for transgender people.
DeSantis proclaims Florida athlete ‘best female swimmer’ over transgender athlete
Read full article: DeSantis proclaims Florida athlete ‘best female swimmer’ over transgender athleteGov. Ron DeSantis railed against the NCAA allowing transgender athletes to compete in women's competitions during a news conference in Wesley Chapel Tuesday.
Supreme Court won’t hear case involving transgender rights
Read full article: Supreme Court won’t hear case involving transgender rightsThe Supreme Court is declining to wade into a case involving transgender rights and leaving in place a lower court decision against a Catholic hospital that wouldn’t allow a transgender man to have a hysterectomy there.
Eligibility rule keeps transgender runner out of trials
Read full article: Eligibility rule keeps transgender runner out of trialsTransgender runner CeCe Telfer will not be allowed to compete in the women’s 400-meter hurdles at U.S. Olympic trials because Telfer has not met the conditions World Athletics established in its eligibility regulations for certain women’s events.
Florida House poised to pass bill barring transgender females from playing in girls’, womens’ sports
Read full article: Florida House poised to pass bill barring transgender females from playing in girls’, womens’ sportsThe Florida House is poised to pass a measure that would bar transgender females from participating in girls’ and women’s high-school and college sports.