Associated Press
A federal Judge hearing a challenge to a transgender health care ban for minors and restrictions for adults noted that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly spread false information about doctors mutilating children’s genitals even though there’s been no such documented cases.
The law was sold as defending children from mutilation when it is actually about preventing trans children from getting health care, Judge Robert Hinkle said to Mohammad Jazil, a lawyer for the state.
“When I’m analyzing the Governor’s motivation, what should I make of these statements?” Hinkle asked. “This seems to be more than just hyperbole.”
Hinkle said he will rule sometime in the new year on whether the Legislature, the Department of Health and presidential candidate DeSantis deliberately targeted transgender people through the new law. He raised some skep
The trial is challenging Florida’s ban on medical treatment for transgender children, such as hormone therapy or puberty blockers, a law DeSantis touted while seeking the presidency. The law also places restrictions on adult trans care.
Jazil said the motivation behind the law was simply public safety in an area that needs more oversight and can have permanent consequences.
“It’s about treating a medical condition; it’s not about targeting transgender individuals,” Jazil said.
Jazil added that if the state was targeting transgender people, it could have banned all treatment for adults and children. Hinkle quickly replied that Jazil would have trouble defending such a law.
Hinkle, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, has temporarily blocked enforcement of the law as it pertains to minors, pending the outcome of the trial. The lawsuit also challenges restrictions placed on adult trans care, which have been allowed to take effect during the trial.
At least 22 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and many of those states face lawsuits. Courts have issued mixed rulings, with the nation’s first law, in Arkansas, struck down by a federal judge who said the ban on care violated the due process rights of transgender youth and their families.
Enforcement is blocked in two states besides Florida, and enforcement is currently allowed in or set to go into effect soon in seven other states.
Thomas Redburn, a lawyer representing trans adults and the families of trans children, said DeSantis and the Legislature have shown a pattern of targeting transgender people. He listed other recent laws that affect the community, including restrictions on pronoun use in schools, the teaching of gender identification in schools, restrictions on public bathrooms and the prohibition of trans girls from playing girls sports.
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Degeneracy Of Floridians
December 22, 2023 at 5:31 pm
Federal Judge Robert Hinkle on Thursday determined that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ repeated claims that doctors were mutilating children’s genitalia were false, the Associated Press reported. DeSantis’ false claims came as he was promoting a new law prohibting gender-affirming care for children. Hinkle is now presiding over a challenge to the law, which DeSantis billed as stopping child mutilation, when in reality it stands to stop children from receiving health care, the judge said on Thursday. “When I’m analyzing the governor’s motivation, what should I make of these statements?” Hinkle said. “This seems to be more than just hyperbole.” The law, as it pertains to children, has been placed on hold until the court challenge is resolved
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December 23, 2023 at 8:37 am
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Citizen
December 22, 2023 at 8:29 pm
J-Man at AHCA and the quack at DOH have a lot to answer for. Zero integrity between them. They get disgraced and demoted employees to do their dirty work for them. They have failed Floridians.
Michael K
December 22, 2023 at 9:41 pm
If the governor’s mouth is moving he is likely telling lies or spewing hate.
My Take
December 22, 2023 at 10:36 pm
Slugs would pour salt on DeSSlimeus.
Margarita Senorita
December 22, 2023 at 10:36 pm
More fake news comedy from the Ass. Press.
Sonja Fitch
December 23, 2023 at 5:03 am
The lack of respect for human differences and needs is the Desantis way! We can tell by the dna the differences that will become the differences ! That is the way nature and nurture works!! We shall treat all with the common good!
An angry mother
December 23, 2023 at 8:15 am
Desantis spews lies and hatred during his speeches. Provide a doctor in Florida that would mutilate a child and Desantis doesn’t have a name. This was a political stunt and only discouraged doctor’s for wanting to continue their practice in Florida. Desantis has lost a lot of respect of Floridians. He is not presidential material. Drop out now you have made a mockery of Florida.
Tom
December 23, 2023 at 8:18 am
He just keeps making up laws and the courts just keep overturning them. He must have been a crap lawyer back before he became a crap politician and a crap governor. Good thing he’ll never get to show us what a crap president he would be. Maybe if we say woke five times and click our heels, he’ll disappear.
He’s such a stain on humanity 😕
December 23, 2023 at 10:27 am
Perhaps his frustration putting together the cheap China-made toys he got his kids for Christmas will give him apoplexy and do his family and the rest of us a huge favor!
Dont Say FLA
December 23, 2023 at 11:26 am
Can Rhonda, a Yarvard and Hale edumacated lar-yer, really but this bad at lar making? Maybe. Maybe not…
More likely, Ron DeSantis has Obi-Wan Kenobi complex:
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you possibly imagine.”
LOL @ Rhonda’s fantasy land
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