The potential effects of the Alabama decision were evident in a separate ruling that Hinkle issued Monday denying a preliminary injunction against part of the Florida law that makes it more difficult for transgender adults to access hormone therapy and surgeries.
‘Kicked out of public life’: Transgender Floridians say new laws are forcing them to leave the state
Amid politically charged debates across the country about transgender issues, Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis this spring approved the law blocking puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors. The move effectively enshrined in law rules that had been passed earlier by the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine.
In his June decision issuing a preliminary injunction on the treatment issue for children, Hinkle wrote that the “statute and the rules were an exercise in politics, not good medicine.”
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