Wed Sep 13, 2023 – 1:46 pm EDTWed Sep 13, 2023 – 1:52 pm EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Florida can continue to enforce its minimal limits on gender-confused adults getting surgically mutilated or injected with drugs, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Judge Robert Hinkle allowed the state to enforce Senate Bill 254’s requirements that gender-confused adults see a physician in person to receive chemical and surgical mutilation. Some gender-confused adults sued because their current clinics only have nurse practitioners. The state’s enforcement of its laws protecting kids from the dangerous procedures remains on hold.
Hinkle wrote that a ruling on Alabama’s similar legislation last month out of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which includes Florida, lowered the plaintiff’s argument for a preliminary injunction.
Judge Hinkle ruled “the challenged statute and rules do not prohibit adults from obtaining treatments of the kind the plaintiffs seek. Two plaintiffs will be unable to obtain hormone treatment from their current providers. But despite the plaintiffs’ contrary assertions, they may be able to obtain the treatment from others.”
“Two other plaintiffs say their scheduled surgeries were canceled and that the surgeons said the challenged statute was the reason,” he
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