Current Version
| Region | Florida |
| Issue | Gender-Affirming Care |
| Status | Restricted |
| Start Date | 2023 |
| End Date | now |
| Description | SB 254 bans all gender affirming care for minors and some adults. Adults have to go through only a certified physician and have to go through rigorous mental health checks with board certified psychiatrists. SB-254 also arrests "government entities" for giving gender affirming care, if they do, do it. "requiring the 22 Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic 23 Medicine to adopt certain emergency rules within a 24 specified timeframe; requiring the boards to consider 25 specified factors in developing such rules; requiring 26 that such prescriptions and procedures for patients 27 older than 18 years of age be prescribed, 28 administered, or performed only with the voluntary and 29 informed consent of the patient" |
| Sources | https://www.aclufl.org/en/legislation/sb-254-punishing-parents-providing-gender-affirming-care-their-kids#:~:text=The%20bill%20criminalizes%20doctors%20for,their%20trans%20child%27s%20health%20care. https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/breaking-florida-senate-passes-extreme-gender-affirming-care-ban https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2023-07-26/trans-adults-seek-to-block-a-new-florida-law-placing-restrictions-on-gender-affirming-care https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/254 |
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Revision History (2)
edited by Notdog1996. More accurate status, considering it is still possible for some adults to undergo it, but is heavily restricted
| Old Value (Original) | New Value (Current) | |
|---|---|---|
| Value | Banned | Restricted |
| Original entry | |
|---|---|
| Status | Banned |
| Start Date | 2023 |
| End Date | now |
| Description | SB 254 bans all gender affirming care for minors and some adults. Adults have to go through only a certified physician and have to go through rigorous mental health checks with board certified psychiatrists. SB-254 also arrests "government entities" for giving gender affirming care, if they do, do it. "requiring the 22 Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic 23 Medicine to adopt certain emergency rules within a 24 specified timeframe; requiring the boards to consider 25 specified factors in developing such rules; requiring 26 that such prescriptions and procedures for patients 27 older than 18 years of age be prescribed, 28 administered, or performed only with the voluntary and 29 informed consent of the patient" |
| Sources | https://www.aclufl.org/en/legislation/sb-254-punishing-parents-providing-gender-affirming-care-their-kids#:~:text=The%20bill%20criminalizes%20doctors%20for,their%20trans%20child%27s%20health%20care. https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/breaking-florida-senate-passes-extreme-gender-affirming-care-ban https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2023-07-26/trans-adults-seek-to-block-a-new-florida-law-placing-restrictions-on-gender-affirming-care https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/254 |