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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I sincerely hope you never have an event in your life where a doctor decides they don't want to work on your case anymore. It's happened to me. I have a chronic and very painful nerve disorder and I had a doctor tell me they couldn't help me anymore. Now in that case, it was fair, because he was just out of ideas and thought I could get better care in a bigger city. But imagine if this doctor had just said, "I don't feel like helping your kind." Imagine if I was bleeding out and the doctor felt that way.
It is absolutely wrong, and unethical, for a doctor to refuse to treat a sick person without very good reason. And "I have a moral objection" is not a very good reason.