transgender issues

It would include puberty blockers, hormones and sex-assignment surgeries for both youth and adults.

Groups criticized a report that the Agency for Health Care Administration is using as a basis for the expected effort to deny Medicaid coverage for the treatments.

AHCA will start a rule-making process related to treatments for gender dysphoria, saying they are “not consistent with generally accepted professional medical standards and are experimental.”

Elliot Long says that he and his family have thought about leaving Florida, but realized that staying and “fighting the good fight” would be more impactful.

The state news release said “current evidence does not support the use of puberty blockers, hormone treatments or surgical procedures for children and adolescents.”

Ambiguity in the bill's language has transgender youth and therapists worried. They say it could lead to further restrictions.

The outcome of a landmark civil rights lawsuit being waged over Florida’s new law banning transgender girls from girls’ sports teams in schools may depend on the verdict in a related legal battle, a judge has ruled.

The stay was issued in the challenge filed on behalf of a Broward County transgender girl who is in middle school.

They range from Florida's law cracking down on protests to whether sports betting will be allowed in the state.

WUSF Public Media is asking members of the trans, nonbinary and gender noncomforming community to tell us what trans joy means to them.

The lawsuit claims the new law will force her to abandon “the sports that mean so much to her” because she will not be able to participate on high-school girls’ athletic teams.

They include a requirement for out-of-state online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases made by Floridians, and surveys to assess the “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” at state colleges and universities.