A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender children is thrown out by a federal judge

US federal judge rules Florida ban on gender-affirming care unconstitutional

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Florida ban on certain gender-affirming care including puberty blockers and hormone therapy was illegal under the Equal Protection Clause of the US Constitution. Florida Statute Section 456.52 banned individuals under the age of 18 from receiving puberty blockers to “stop or delay puberty in order to affirm a person’s perception of his or her sex if that perception is inconsistent with the person’s [natal] se…

Judge Strikes Down Florida Law Protecting Minors From Transgender Medical Interventions

A federal judge has blocked Florida’s restrictions on puberty blocking drugs and opposite-sex hormones for minors. Judge Robert Hinkle, a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, blocked the protections in a ruling issued on June 11. Judge Hinkle was nominated to the court by former President Bill Clinton in 1996. The judge blocked rules adopted by the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine in No…

Federal Judge Strikes Down Florida Transgender Surgery Ban › American Greatness

On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that most of Florida’s ban on transgender medical procedures for minors was unconstitutional. As the Daily Wire reports, Judge […] Source

'Huge win in Florida' as judge strikes down gender-affirming care ban

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key sections of Florida's ban on gender-affirming healthcare for minors—which also limits adults seeking such care—are unconstitutional and that the Republican state lawmakers and GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis were acting with "anti-transgender animus" and not in the in...

US judge strikes down Florida ban on gender-affirming healthcare - West Hawaii Today

A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that parts of Florida’s ban of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender children and restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare for adults are unconstitutional and ordered that it not be enforced.

Judge strikes down Fla. law on transgender care

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A federal judge struck down a 2023 Florida law Tuesday that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults, calling the statute unconstitutional.