Transgender

Andrew Warren filed the petition days after he announced he was filing an appeal in federal court.

A small group of USF students gathered outside the Marshall Student Center on Tuesday to celebrate trans joy and protect civil rights.

The DeSantis administration is requiring state universities to provide information from the past five years about services they have provided to people with gender dysphoria.

The board originally listed an incorrect email address where people can submit comments. The public now has until Dec. 28 to share feedback about the proposal, which would restrict access to gender-affirming care for trans youth.

Lawyers for Andrew Warren said the suspension was clearly motivated by politics. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle says it will be at least two weeks before he rules.

The rules approved Friday would prohibit doctors from prescribing puberty-blocking, hormone and hormone “antagonist” treatments for patients under age 18. The rules would not apply to children already receiving such treatments.

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.

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."

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.

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.”