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$200,000 has been donated since January to GoFundMe fundraisers started by trans people seeking to leave Florida, according to data from the platform.

Transgender patients say their doctors have been holding off on prescribing treatments as they wait for new consent forms. Medical boards are proposing to allow them to continue for now.

LGBTQ advocates in Central Florida have started a fund that will help transgender people get gender affirming care in other states.

Attorneys for students, parents, and teachers say what opponents call the "Don't Say Gay" law is unconstitutional.

This year, the courts will take up abortion, big tech, elections, gambling, race relations, gender and sexual orientation, guns, race, redistricting and the case of Andrew Gillum.

Lawyers for a group of parents, students and a non-profit organization have asked a federal judge to halt school districts from carrying out a controversial state law that restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued in the complaint that the law violates First Amendment and equal-protection rights — and improperly chills discussion of the issues.

Gov. Ron DeSantis was the keynote speaker at the three-day Moms For Liberty conference in Tampa.

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.”

Doctors in Florida are speaking out against plans to block people receiving gender affirming care from using Medicaid to pay for it.