transgender youth

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.”

Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Michael Haller says treatments that new Florida guidelines warn against would occur only after considerable and detailed evaluations with patients and families.

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.

Studies show that trans affirming care can reduce suicide rates by 73% in transgender youth.

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

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 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.

Activists say the bill is an attack on transgender kids.

If the birth certificate of a student athlete said they were male, and then they later changed that certificate to female, the bills says they couldn't use the amended document to play on female teams.

Under the measure on its way to Gov. Ron DeSantis, female students’ eligibility for sports teams would be based on their “biological sex” on birth certificates issued “at or near the time of the student’s birth.”

One involves the ability of transgender women and girls to compete on female school sports teams. Opponents say the other could force school officials to reveal private conversations with students.