A new Florida law banning gender-affirming care for minors is getting a lot of attention nationally as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for president, but it's also impacting transgender adults.

The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.

Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      461·
      1 year ago

      If Republicans cared in the slightest about children, they would have done something after Sandy Hook other than make up conspiracy theories.

      • keeb420@kbin.social
        251·
        1 year ago

        like the wise man said “if youre preborn youre fine. if youre preschool youre fucked.”

      • happy_camper@lemmy.world
        313·
        1 year ago

        That’s a minority of people who aren’t conservative so much as they are extremist. Just very vocal. On the other end of the spectrum, there are actual people who want to transition their toddlers. They are also very vocal.

        But so now you have people leaning left judging everyone right of them by the most vocal extremists on the right side, and vice versa. And then the divide between left and right seems to widen, because in politics it’s apparently law that every action be met with an even bolder counter action, so if you try and be neutral about any of this you’ll lose your mind!

        Can’t you see that this isn’t even about you versus me, both actually just very mildly distant in our ideals, but about you and me versus whoever is profiting over us spending the time to debate this in the first place?

    • NathanielThomas@lemmy.world
      341·
      1 year ago

      It’s been famously said that Republicans care for children from conception up until the millisecond they’re born. At that point they’re not their problem and are completely content if that person ends up in poverty, homeless or suffers a horrible life.

      • littlecolt@lemm.ee
        9·
        1 year ago

        Now now, they also care about them as soon as they’re old enough to enlist in the military. But as soon as their service is over, fuck 'em again.