'Hinkle’s ruling is only the latest in a growing file of court decisions invalidating or suspending reactionary laws and regulations promulgated by DeSantis and his henchmen and -women in the GOP-dominated state legislature.' Column by hiltzikm:
A federal judge in Tallahassee left few doubts the other day about what he thought of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ assault on healthcare for transgender Floridians.
Hinkle’s ruling is only the latest in a growing file of court decisions invalidating or suspending reactionary laws and regulations promulgated by DeSantis and his henchmen and -women in the GOP-dominated state legislature. When anti-LGBTQ+ activists went after Target for selling Pride merchandise, they guessed the company would cave. They were right.
The 15-week law has been challenged on grounds that it violates privacy rights enshrined in the state constitution, an issue now before the state Supreme Court. The new law is probably destined for review on the same grounds. Hinkle noted that those treatments had been approved for coverage by Florida Medicaid in 2016 and 2017, when the program recognized that failing to treat adolescents and adults with those drugs exposed them, as Hinkle wrote, to “higher rates of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide than the population at large.”
Everything changed last year, when DeSantis ordered the Medicaid agency to conduct another review of the coverage. The agency hired consultants “known in advance for their staunch opposition to gender-affirming care,” Hinkle wrote. The process “was, from the outset, a biased effort to justify a predetermined outcome, not a fair analysis of the evidence.”
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