Judge curbs Fla. probe into U.S. medicine's trans treatment standards
Source: Washington Post
A legal battle over Floridas ban on Medicaid spending for gender-affirming medical care spilled into Washington on Thursday as a federal judge partially granted an urgent request by 18 American medical and mental health groups to quash subpoenas sent to them by the state after they opposed the prohibition.
The professional associations accused Florida of targeting members such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association and the Endocrine Society after they expressed the widely accepted medical view that care such as puberty blockers, hormones and gender transition surgery can be appropriate treatment for transgender youth and adults.
The groups spoke out last fall in support of a lawsuit filed by four transgender patients and their parents to overturn the ban in federal court in Tallahassee. But the organizations said state officials responded with a highly inappropriate and invasive fishing expedition for internal documents and communications about their policy positions. They accused the state of hunting for supposed internal dissent and bias in the service of an attack on the guidelines and credibility of the groups from the inside-out......
The court fight and Thursdays ruling underscored how aggressively Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and his administration are pressing a state attack on transgender medical treatment, a wedge-issue selected by conservative politicians in the nations culture wars, with not just transgender patients and their families in the crosshairs, but also increasingly doctors and the medical establishment.
The lawsuit was filed in Florida after the states Medicaid agency ended funding for gender transition care in August, joining Texas and Alabama, and saying only treatments that are found to be safe, effective, and that meet medical necessity criteria may be covered. The states politically appointed Board of Medicine has since become the first to try to ban health-care professionals that it licenses from providing such treatment to minors, threatening violators with penalties, including loss of their medical license.
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NullTuples
(6,017 posts)But luckily the judge said no to that one, too.
Does this feel like a legal team who knows they are in the right?
summer_in_TX
(2,685 posts)maybe, just maybe, #DeSantisIsADictator
Rebl2
(13,311 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Amazing how much time and energy the nation spends on so called culture wars which are really religious wars, again returning! Call it like it is! Religion versus science war, again!
Politically appointed Boards
of Medicine, Education, Energy, Environment, Police, etc., none Independent acting in best interests of People, as intended by Democracy.
Reap what you sow, authoritarian rule, only the Courts may hold
unless also not independent.
Then its a Russia clone.
Initech
(99,915 posts)Warpy
(110,913 posts)with other people's genitals. It seems their own genitals are what need monitoring.
The first thing organized religion seems to do is remove personal boundaries, making them incapable of minding any of their own business and being obsessed with yours and mind.
It's why even believers are loath to identify as Christians. These sick assholes have ruined it for all of them.