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.

    • 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.

                  • Warfarin@lemmy.world
                    113·
                    1 year ago

                    The fact you want to suppress speech and ban as many people as you can who don’t agree is what makes you fascist

        • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de
          81·
          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
      242·
      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
      202·
      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@lemmy.ml
      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.