Ron DeSantis loses in court on anti-transgender healthcare law for the 2nd time in a month as judge rebukes 'dog whistles' from Florida officials
regulations in Florida that banned government healthcare programs from paying for treatments like puberty-blocking medication and hormone therapy for transgender people.
The governor's office and representatives from Florida's healthcare agency, the Agency for Health Care Administration, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Insider sent after hours. The medical services are known in the field as"gender-affirming healthcare" and include puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery.
"There are those who believe that cisgender individuals properly adhere to their natal sex and that transgender individuals have inappropriately chosen a contrary gender identity, male or female, just as one might choose whether to read Shakespeare or Grisham," he wrote."Many people with this view tend to disapprove all things transgender and so oppose medical care that supports a person's transgender existence.
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