A new Florida law restricting health care for transgender people can still be applied to adults while it is being challenged in court.

A new Florida law restricting health care for transgender people can still be applied to adults while it is being challenged in court, a federal judge ruled Monday.

Judge Robert Hinkle, who previously blocked the law’s enforcement on behalf of minors, ruled that adults seeking to expand his injunction haven’t proven they would be irreparably harmed until the case is resolved.

The law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in May bans any transgender treatment for minors and requires transgender adults give consent to treatment in person and with a physician present. Advocates say that is a problem because much of the care is prescribed by nurse practitioners and/or through telehealth – and that it’s too hard for many patients to get or get to in-person appointments with physicians.

  • n2burns@lemmy.ca
    53·
    1 year ago

    Making laws that affect less than 1% of the population is not only a waste of time but unconstitutional.

    While I agree this law is heinous and possibly unconstitutional, most laws affect less than 1% of the population, so that’s a bad argument.

    • Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
      41·
      1 year ago

      14th Amendment

      SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any personati life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

      When you make arights law for less than 1% of the population, you are automatically unconstitutional per the 14th. Constitutional lawyers have a term for this, bur I forget what it is.