Fri Jun 23, 2023 – 3:38 pm EDT
TALLAHASEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – A U.S. district judge in Florida imposed an injunction against a state law that barred the prescription of puberty blockers and transgender drugs for minors as well as the use of Medicaid to pay for gender “treatments.”
In a 54-page ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, a Clinton appointee, maintained that Florida state regulations and a May law signed by Republican presidential hopeful and Gov. Ron DeSantis violate federal laws regarding Medicaid, equal protection under the U.S. Constitution, and the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) ban on sexual discrimination.
“Gender identity is real,” Hinkle wrote, adding that Florida recognizes “gender identity” despite state lawmakers’ “bigotry directed against transgender people.” He further wrote that Florida statutes regarding gender drugs and “treatments” are “politically motivated,” that the state’s actions against gender “treatments” were “biased … from the outset,” viewing gender identity as a “woke idea” or as “profiteering by the pharmaceutical industry or doctors.”
“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
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