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Courts have held that prisons are required under the U.S. Constitution to provide gender-affirming hormones as needed. ... As many as one-third of the people on hormones in Florida's prisons were ...
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the restrictions into law in 2023, banning people under the age of 18 from receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria ...
Florida's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people under 18 and its new restrictions for adults may be enforced while a lawsuit works its way through the courts, a federal appeals court ...
Florida Senate Bill 254 (SB 254) is a law that prohibits gender-affirming care for anyone under the age of 18, places restrictions on adult patients accessing this care, and allows the state to take temporary custody of children who may be receiving gender-affirming care now or in the future. [1]
As hormone replacement therapy, gender-affirming surgery is also employed as a response to diagnosis gender dysphoria [17] [39] The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care recommend additional requirements for gender-affirming surgery when compared to hormone replacement therapy.
Under Florida’s newly proposed House Bill 1421, gender-affirming health care including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries will be outlawed for transgender minors. Transgender adults…
Story at a glance Florida’s Medicaid program will no longer cover gender-affirming medical care including puberty blockers, hormones or surgeries for transgender recipients under a new state rule.
Gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT), also called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or transgender hormone therapy, is a form of hormone therapy in which sex hormones and other hormonal medications are administered to transgender or gender nonconforming individuals for the purpose of more closely aligning their secondary sexual characteristics with their gender identity.