This weekend, on August 21, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA)– shamelessly executing the DeSantis Administration’s discriminatory agenda – will rip away access to life-saving medical care for more than 9,000 transgender Floridians who rely on Medicaid. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — condemns this blatantly political move that ignores medical consensus and takes decisions about best care practices out of the hands of medical professionals and patients.

“Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration’s actions to strip Medicaid recipients of their access to medically necessary, life-saving gender-affirming health care is only the latest egregious example of the DeSantis administration’s attack on transgender Floridians.,” said Sarah Warbelow, Human Rights Campaign Legal Director. “This move goes against the recommendation of every major medical association, all of whom agree that gender-affirming care is medically necessary. After misinterpreting studies, willfully ignoring evidence, and denying the medical consensus the AHCA chose to leave thousands of transgender adults without any access to the care they need, putting the health of thousands at risk. This move by the ACHA is shameful and should be reversed immediately.”

“As it has been with these attacks across the board, the cruelty is the point,” said Nikole Parker, Equality Florida Director...

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