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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.
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A bill heading to the House floor would effectively ban transgender women and girls from competing in women and girls school sports teams. The measure’s sponsor says this ban is needed because biological males have a physical advantage over biological females when it comes to sports. Robbie Gaffney speaks with Janet Silverstein, a pediatric endocrinologist who works at UF Health’s Youth Gender Program, which provides services to transgender and gender-nonconforming youth and their families. They begin their conversation with the changes transgender girls go through when undergoing hormone therapy.