{"id":11021,"date":"2023-06-23T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11021"},"modified":"2023-06-23T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:00:20","slug":"federal-judge-rips-into-floridas-ban-on-gender-affirming-care-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11021","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge rips into Florida\u2019s ban on gender-affirming care for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;A federal judge delivered a stinging rebuke to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled Legislature over rules and a new state law that banned minors from receiving \u201cpuberty blockers\u201d and other types of gender-affirming care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle on Tuesday blocked the state from applying the ban to three minors whose parents are part of an ongoing lawsuit, saying they would \u201csuffer irreparable harm\u201d if they were not allowed to continue access to hormones and other types of treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association support gender-affirming care for adults and adolescents. But medical experts said gender-affirming care for children rarely, if ever, includes surgery. Instead, doctors are more likely to recommend counseling, social transitioning and hormone replacement therapy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/06\/florida-gender-affirming-care-ruling-00100387\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/06\/06\/florida-gender-affirming-care-ruling-00100387<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A federal judge delivered a stinging rebuke to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled Legislature over rules and a new state law that banned minors from receiving \u201cpuberty blockers\u201d and other types of gender-affirming care.<br \/>\nU.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle on Tuesday blocked the state from applying the ban to three minors whose parents are part of an ongoing lawsuit, saying they would \u201csuffer irreparable harm\u201d if they were not allowed to continue access to hormones and other types of treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association support gender-affirming care for adults and adolescents. But medical experts said gender-affirming care for children rarely, if ever, includes surgery. Instead, doctors are more likely to recommend counseling, social transitioning and hormone replacement therapy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[321,800,471,421,918,81,73,332,1489,1213,403],"class_list":["post-11021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ban","tag-bans","tag-florida","tag-gender","tag-gender-identity","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-judge","tag-judges","tag-judiciary","tag-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11022,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions\/11022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}