A federal judge in Florida has overturned a state law and executive branch administrative action that barred the use of Medicaid funds to pay for gender-affirming health care for transgender residents.
, stating affirmatively that “gender identity is real,” and that, like his previous decision on gender-affirming care, the Medicaid ban in Florida was based on transphobic attitudes of state lawmakers.
Hinkle also described that change as a “well-choreographed public hearing that was an effort not to gather facts but to support the predetermined outcome.”
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