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The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration rule prevents reimbursements to medical providers for such treatments as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender-affirming surgery.
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A federal judge has scheduled the trial in a battle about Gov. Ron DeSantis’ suspension of Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren for “incompetence and willful defiance of his duties."
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The Florida Board of Medicine has advanced a plan to ban doctors from providing treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender people under age 18.
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The state report says the Medicaid program “has determined that the research supporting sex reassignment treatment is insufficient to demonstrate efficacy and safety.” But seven scientists and a Yale law professor have countered with a report that said the state’s “conclusions are incorrect and scientifically unfounded.”
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Doctors in Florida are speaking out against plans to block people receiving gender affirming care from using Medicaid to pay for it.
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National and state legal and LGBTQ-advocacy groups are preparing to fight a move by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to deny Medicaid coverage for treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking medication for transgender people.
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The 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.
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The Florida Department of Health on Wednesday released guidance that said treatment such as puberty-blocking medication and hormone therapy should not be used for transgender youths, clashing with federal officials over the issue.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis waded further into gender politics Tuesday, issuing a proclamation that said a swimmer from Sarasota is the nation’s best “female” in the 500-meter freestyle after she finished second last week to a transgender athlete at the NCAA championship.
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Tossing out a July decision, a full federal appeals court will hear a battle about whether a transgender male student should have been allowed to use boys’ bathrooms at a North Florida high school.