Posted on 06/12/2024 3:25:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a 2023 Florida law that blocked gender-affirming care for transgender minors and severely restricted such treatment for adults, calling the statute unconstitutional.
Senior Judge Robert Hinkle said the state went too far when it barred transgender minors from being prescribed puberty blockers and hormonal treatments with their parents’ permission. He also stopped the state from requiring that transgender adults receive treatment only from doctors, and not from registered nurses or other qualified medical practitioners. And he barred the state’s ban on online treatment for transgender adults.
Hinkle said transgender people are constitutionally entitled to the legitimate treatment they need, and quoted the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in likening those who oppose this right to those who were once against equality for minorities and women.
“Some transgender opponents invoke religion to support their position, just as some once invoked religion to support their racism or misogyny,” Hinkle wrote in his 105-page decision. “Transgender opponents are of course free to hold their beliefs. But they are not free to discriminate against transgender individuals just for being transgender.
“In time, discrimination against transgender individuals will diminish, just as racism and misogyny have diminished,” he continued. “To paraphrase a civil-rights advocate from an earlier time, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office blasted Hinkle’s ruling, issuing a statement calling it “erroneous” and vowing to appeal.
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Judges ... America’s new Imperial Branch of Government
Judge Robert Hinkle was nominated by President Bill Clinton on June 6, 1996
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Elections have consequences.
Nominating judges is reason #5927 why Trump needs to select someone as VP who will help him win the election.
Forget ideology of the VP, or the past history.
Forget about how the VP will govern as VP.
Forget about if the VP will be the new MAGA torch bearer.
All that goes out the window if we don’t win THIS election in November.
The VP doesn’t nominate judges. The POTUS does.
If the parts they were born with did not affirm who they are why does mangling them do so?
gender-affirming care
Gridlock is always good in a failed, drowning in debt, immoral government.
Sorry, a lot of cleanup there.
Isn’t this gender denying ‘care’?
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In reality it’s gender-denying mutilation, both physical and psychological.
Florida has done pretty well on appeal over the past few years.
Pervert birds of a feather. It’s interesting that clinton is suspected of abusing minor females in his many visits to the epstein island. and now a judge he appointed appears to favor the medical and surgical abuse of minors, and not just minors but children.
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