Lead plaintiff August Dekker For the second time in two days, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled against a state law attacking gender affirming care for trans people.
Today (Wednesday, June 21) Judge Robert Hinkle struck down Florida’s anti-transgender health care rule that denied the state’s transgender Medicaid beneficiaries coverage for gender-affirming medical care, saying the prohibition of Medicaid coverage for gender dysphoria treatments is unlawful and unconstitutional.
Yesterday (Tuesday, June 20), U.S. District Judge James M. Moody Jr., judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, ruled that Arkansas’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth violates the constitutional rights of trans youth, their parents and their medical providers.
Today’s ruling in Florida came in Dekker v. Weida, a federal lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal, Southern Legal Counsel, Florida Health Justice Project, the National Health Law Program, and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.