Florida court blocks law targeting trans adults and teens
dallasvoice.comTALLAHASSEE — A federal district court has permanently blocked Florida from enforcing a law that bans medical care for transgender adolescents and restricts it for transgender adults.
The ruling in Doe v. Ladapo found that Florida SB 254 and the related Boards of Medicine rules were motivated by disapproval of transgender people and violate the equal protection rights of transgender individuals and parents of transgender minors in Florida.
Florida was the first state to pass a law restricting access to health care for transgender adults. Today’s ruling (June 11) permanently blocks those restrictions as well as the ban on care for adolescents.
In issuing its ruling the court found the health care restrictions in SB 254 were motivated by disapproval of transgender people, not by science, and were unlawful.