A new Florida law banning gender-affirming care for minors is getting a lot of attention nationally as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for president, but it's also impacting transgender adults.

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.

    • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      118·
      1 year ago

      Actually fucking painful the amount of people I had this argument with, hate being vindicated in this way. It was never about the children, it’s purely about hate.

    • lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world
      591·
      1 year ago

      Funny how the same people supporting this law oppose universal school breakfast/lunches, subsidized neonatal/child healthcare, and funding for extracurricular programs.

      • notatoad@lemmy.world
        141·
        1 year ago

        only if those programs support minorities. government-funded school breakfasts or lunches, healthcare subsidies, and funding for school extracurricular programs are all A-OK as long as we can make sure it only happens at schools that primarily serve rich white christians.

    • z3rOR0ne
      17·
      1 year ago

      Pro life…until you’re out of the womb… then you’re on your own… and get to work!.. didn’t you hear about the rollback of child labor laws?

      • rambaroo@lemmy.world
        38·
        1 year ago

        Stop targeting kids with child marriage, beauty parents and abusers in the church. Those are real problems that children face.

        You don’t give a damn about children. This is entirely about targeting a class of people you hate, with kids as the excuse, and it’s fucking vile and evil.

      • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
        271·
        1 year ago

        The same reasoning the Nazies called themselves socialist, despite being a fascist dictatorship. Why China says they are communist, while being a dictatorship with limited capitalism. And the US thinking it’s a democracy when it’s a Oligarchy with limited local democracy.

        Dumb people think words mean more than actions/reality.

          • Fugicara@lemmy.worldEnglish
            121·
            1 year ago

            As in because the pendulum swings from the far left to the far right? Or were you just mistakenly conflating those two completely opposite political theories?

            • ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works
              12·
              1 year ago

              Calling the Nazis far right is ignoring that their politics were more complicated than a simple 2D spectrum. They adopted ideas from both left and right.

              • Fugicara@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                They certainly adopt rhetoric from the left which helps them get elected, then enact exclusively right-wing policies when they actually have power, sure. Fascists usually use populist rhetoric to get into power but then they never do anything to actually reduce inequality (because that would be the opposite of fascism).

                  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    4·
                    1 year ago

                    For all the incessant whining conservatives do about being called fascists, most of the time I see someone call another person “fascist,” it’s a conservative shrieking it at someone who doesn’t want to use the government to oppress vulnerable minorities.

          • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de
            91·
            1 year ago

            Not all authoritarianism is fascism. All fascism is authoritarian, of course, but fascism isn’t the only authoritarian system of government.

      • TimmyDeanSausage @lemmy.world
        252·
        1 year ago

        Because people like you repeatedly say trans people are grooming kids, just like people like you said gay men were grooming kids, just like people like you said black men were grooming your kids (to do drugs).

        Personally, I don’t see what is “curious” about responding to wild accusations against an entire minority group with a resounding “that’s not happening and you’re using a dog whistle to dehumanize trans people.”

        Things may be less “curious” for you if, instead of starting with a conclusion and working backwards to justify/explain it, you started with a question/hypothesis and worked towards a logical conclusion. Just a suggestion.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        212·
        1 year ago

        Then why is “stop targeting kids” seen as transphobic if it’s nothing to do with kids?

        Because the bigots who say it aren’t saying it about people who are targeting kids. They’re falsely accusing trans people of targeting kids.

      • socsa
        2·
        1 year ago

        Because nobody in the LGBT community is targeting kids with anything, so when you make that implication, you are perpetuating an offensive and recently extremely dangerous stereotype which has actually gotten people killed already.

        Just in case you aren’t actually trolling and legitimately don’t understand this.