The complaint, filed today, adds four adult plaintiffs to Doe v. Ladapo: Olivia Noel, Kai Pope, Lucien Hamel, and Rebecca Cruz Evia. All of these plaintiffs face dangerous interruptions in ongoing medical care under Florida law.
In addition to prohibiting established medical care for transgender youth and creating criminal and civil penalties for those who provide such care, SB 254 enacted severe restrictions on access to care for adults. Advanced Practice Registered Nurse – Nurses are important providers of transgender health care in Florida and are prohibited by SB 254 from continuing to care for patients. SB 254 also prohibits access to telemedicine and mandates in-person consultations for all care, a requirement impossible to meet for Florida residents who do not live close to the doctors who provide them. The law and relevant medical board regulations also create medically unnecessary and harmful barriers to treatment and require physicians to misrepresent patients.
These restrictions have no medical purpose and deliberately prevent transgender people from receiving the care they need.
Plaintiffs are represented by Southern Legal Counsel, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, National Lesbian Rights Center, and Human Rights Campaign, which issued the following statement:
SB 254’s restrictions on established medicine cause serious harm, serve no legitimate purpose, and reflect legal excesses. SB 254 takes away the ability of Florida residents to make important decisions about their lives and turns it over to the government instead. It should surprise us all.
On June 6, the U.S. District Court ruled that issued a temporary restraining order It suspended Florida’s enforcement of a ban on medical care for transgender minors, arguing that the ban violated the Constitution. The order will allow parents in Florida to get needed medical care for their transgender children while legal challenges to the ban continue.
The complaint filed today seeks the permanent blocking of all provisions of SB 254 and related Medical Board Regulations that limit access to established transgender medical care for adolescents and adults.
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More information on safe, effective and established guidelines for health care for transgender youth.
