Transgender adults in Florida are blindsided that a new law also limits their access to health care
apnews.com
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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Imagine being unable to go to a doctor near you and instead having to travel 40 miles to get to a doctor who is willing to care for you, or not being able to go a doctor your insurance covers purely due to legalized discrimination (especially legalized discrimination that was once illegal!)
The goal of explicitly allowing discrimination against a particular minority (especially in healthcare) is to retarn to the Jim Crowe era where the members of the minority group is limited to only being able to access inferior services, greatly reducing the quality and longevity of their lives
Suicide rates of folks who want to transition but are denied care are scary high.
Hormone replacement therapy (which by the way is reserved for adults and only after extensive, typically years-long consultation. Minors will receive puberty blockers to delay puberty until they are old enough to make an informed decision on how they wish to proceed) is not cosmetic but flat out is a large part of the physical transition that trans people go through
Note: I'm going off of memory from discussions with trans friends, anyone with more experience related to the transitioning process please feel free to correct me on the specifics