transgender community

In founding Capital Tea, Janel Diaz sought to provide the kind of services that she had needed after her transition.

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

Under the bill most kids under 18 won’t be able to receive gender affirming care including puberty blockers or hormone therapy. Some kids who have already begun such treatment will be able to continue, but the bill instructs the state Board of Medicine to make rules about what that will look like.

"It’s hateful rhetoric that is legitimated by reference to a text that he and many other people find authoritative and divine rite, but that’s just a truth claim. That’s something that we have responsibility to interrogate and to think about its effects on people," said professor Nicole Kelley

Shannon Callahan said the bill will create a traumatic and confusing entry into 5th grade for her transgender son who she said is proud, but private about his gender identity.

Later this week, a Florida Board of Medicine rule that bans gender affirming care, such as puberty blockers, for most transgender kids goes into effect. Monday, a bill that codifies those rules got its first committee hearing.

Florida lawmakers heard from a one-sided panel of medical professionals and advocates Tuesday as they argued against gender affirming care for kids.

Puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy will be banned for minors, even during clinical trails.

22 health-care organizations are seeking to bolster a legal challenge to a new Florida rule that prevents Medicaid from paying for treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender people.

More than a hundred people attended an Agency for Healthcare Administration hearing in Tallahassee on a proposed rule prohibiting the state’s Medicaid program from covering gender-affirming treatments.