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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    Yeah I thought this was old news. I’m a licensed medical professional in Florida and I received an email from the department of health about these changes 3 or 4 months ago. The one about refusing care on moral grounds is newer, about a month or two old. This has been a thing for a good while now

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      I don’t think any trans people in florida are being blindsided by this (and certainly not now). People with no insight on the topic or very naive people could be blindsided

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      Can you refuse republicans based on the Bible saying their actions are against Christ? Honest question.

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        Sure, you could point out their hypocrisy using the bible. It won’t make them reconsider their position, but you can do it. I dont see what that has to do with trans healthcare though

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          The Satanic Temple made pretty good progress fighting state sponsored bullying and indoctorination by using that exact tactic

          Oh you want to distribute bible materials at a public school? Well you also have to distribute our Satanic Temple’s materials too because you have to consider us equally. Oh gosh darn you’ve suddenly decided you don’t need to distribute religious materials anymore, I guess students won’t be receiving religious materials to indoctorinate them in either the Satanic Temple or the Church now

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            A lot of their stuff has to do with the separation of church and state, not specifically using the bible to point out republican hypocrisy

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            TST has made no progress in any way, but they’re very loud because they want you to give money to them instead of actual trans healthcare organizations.