RELIEF: Florida’s gender-affirming care ban shot down
In an eviscerating ruling condemning anti-trans bigotry, a federal judge has partially struck down Florida’s ban on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors.
In his ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Hinkle lays out the basis for his decision in four words: “Gender identity is real.”
Hinkle’s written decision is a masterclass in shutting down the hateful anti-trans rhetoric coming from “anti-woke” right-wing Governor Ron “Kinky White Jackboots” DeSantis.
DeathSantis recently signed a bill that effectively banned all gender-affirming care for trans youth in Florida.
The Don’t Say Gay Governor’s hateful policies ending trans healthcare weren’t advanced through the state legislature but instead handed down directly by his administration.
The judge’s decision is in response to a lawsuit filed against science-denying State Surgeon General Joseph “Just Say No to All Medical Truths” Ladapo by four Florida families with transgender children.
That lawsuit argued the state of Florida “could not demonstrate any rational basis, much less an important or compelling one, for the transgender medical bans which prevent transgender adolescents from getting safe and effective medically necessary healthcare.”
That medically necessary healthcare includes their children’s access to puberty blockers and hormone therapy, which had been discontinued by Governor Gitmo’s arbitrary ban.
“The elephant in the room should be noted at the outset,” the judge writes.
“Gender identity is real. The record makes this clear. The medical defendants, speaking through their attorneys, have admitted it.”
The judge’s order also slams Florida’s unproven claims regarding “transition regret” and false statements that the state joined an “international consensus” against affirming healthcare.
“This assertion is false. No matter how many times the defendants say it, it will still be false,” Judge Hinkle wrote. “No country in Europe entirely bans these treatments.”
But the real killer comes when the judge is all I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE REALLY DOING.
“Any proponent of the challenged statute and rules 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 to be tolerated.”
You can read the judge’s full sick burn of DuhSantis and Ladapoo (typo intentional) here.
Meanwhile, Twitter was adding more fuel to the Reischstag Ron Pride Month Bonfire of the Vainglorious.
A federal district court has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of a law passed in Florida and signed by Ron DeSantis forbidding the treatment of gender dysphoria in children with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. https://t.co/m9H9Kd5djT pic.twitter.com/hqGipY8JI5
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) June 6, 2023
Dear Ron DeSantis & Walmart Melania,
Being "woke" refers to being aware of systemic injustice & discrimination based on race, gender, sexuality or other marginalized identities. It means valuing diversity. I’m glad to be woke.
So, in closing, go fuck yourselves.
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
— cαηα∂α нαтεs тя☭мρ (@Trump_Detester) June 6, 2023
People are reporting on the judge blocking DeSantis' severely unconstitutional restrictions on gender care but not enough including the quotes absolutely reading it/him for filth pic.twitter.com/rfgL2tou4I
— Daryl "Ridged Chips" Bartley (@hypercubexl) June 6, 2023
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