In their coverage of Florida’s latest attack on the trans community, mainstream print and blog outlets are failing to fact-check false claims made by GOP officials, instead acting as a sounding board for misinformation on gender-affirming care.
As part of its ongoing assault on the trans community, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) released a report that proposed ending coverage for gender-affirming health care through the state’s Medicaid program, based on false claims regarding the safety and efficacy of that care. If the AHCA succeeds in denying access to essential care for all trans residents, Florida will become the 11th state to explicitly ban Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care.
The same day the report was released, Florida’s Department of Health renewed its push to ban both medical and social transition for trans youth, with Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo putting out a letter citing the AHCA report and ordering the state’s Board of Medicine to review it in order to consider banning access to transition for trans youth in the state. This step follows the FDOH’s April release of non-binding guidance that similarly relied on misinformation in an attempt to prevent youth in the state from transitioning.
Rather than citing widely available evidence supporting the necessity of gender-affirming...
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