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.
Making laws that affect less than 1% of the population is not only a waste of time but unconstitutional. Equal rights under the law means nothing to the kabuki theater of creating wedge issues for the politicians. Instead the state will spend money on lawyers for a losing case, if the judges have any integrity. Welcome to DeSantis Florida where this happens all the time.
You think you know struggle? That you understand sacrifice? You’ll never know how much dedication it takes to punch yourself in the face until it hurts someone minding their own business.
Florida is both the bartender in Quentin Tarantino’s Desperado joke and somehow also Quentin Tarantino assaulting on-screen talent.
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.
14th Amendment
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.