Advocacy groups sued Wednesday to block a new Florida rule that bars Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming health care, such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery.
gender-affirming procedures have the “potential for harmful long term affects.” The rule took effect Aug. 21.
On Wednesday, he said that he planned to pick up his testosterone prescription but that since the rule took effect, he was left scrambling to figure out how he is going to pay for it. Jade Ladue, the mother of a 12-year-old transgender boy who goes by K.F. in the lawsuit, said the new Medicaid rule will prevent her and her husband, Joshua, from being able to access puberty-blocking medication prescribed by K.F.’s doctors.
The groups argue that Florida’s Medicaid rule violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which bars discrimination in federally funded health care institutions and programs, because it would cover puberty blockers and hormone therapy for cisgender people to treat other conditions.
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