Wed Jun 7, 2023 – 6:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the enforcement of Florida’s law prohibiting puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors, declaring that those who support the law should “put up or shut up.”
Judge Robert Hinkle issued a preliminary injunction against the recently enacted Senate Bill 254, which bans transgender surgeries, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children. The law was signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May as part of a broad legislative package to protect the state’s kids from transgender ideology, dubbed “Let Kids be Kids.”
“Any proponent of the challenged statute and rule should put up or shut up: Do you acknowledge that there are individuals with actual gender identities opposite their natal sex, or do you not? Dog whistles ought not be tolerated,” Hinkle wrote Tuesday.
Hinkle’s ruling follows a lawsuit by the parents of two 11-year-old girls as well as an 8-year-old boy who argued that banning puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. According to the Independent, the parents maintain that such interventions are “safe” and “medically necessary healthcare.”
The children will be able to proceed
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