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.

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    1 year ago

    Now, do you really think there are enough trans adults in Florida to vote out the people who created this law? The article doesn’t say they voted Republican and I think we can assume they didn’t. The reason they used the word “blindsided” is because they say the adult aspects of the bill were never part of the public discussion in the news. Of course they could have sought out the full text of the bill, read it and publicized it themselves. But they probably thought they already knew it was a terrible idea without reading past the denial of care to youths. And even if they had risen en masse to protest both new laws, it would only have further energized the red wing who portray them as evil degenerates undermining society.