BREAKING: Federal court rules against Florida’s administrative and regulatory bans on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming medical care for minors (puberty blockers and hormones) following a trial. https://t.co/HJjSCpcioY pic.twitter.com/W2d9kQQ4Rl
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) June 21, 2023
I think we have to blame this on Ron DeSantis.
Other governors have gotten these laws passed.
What is different about the Florida law that federal judges are striking it down?
A U.S. judge on Wednesday struck down a Florida rule and a statute that banned state Medicaid payments for transgender healthcare, marking the second defeat in two weeks for anti-transgender legislation in the state.
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle declared the state’s practices invalid, saying they violated the constitutional right to equal protection under the 14th amendment in addition to violating the federal Medicaid statue and the Affordable Care Act’s prohibition of sex discrimination.
The injunction was expected after Hinkle on June 6 partially blocked Florida from enforcing its recent ban on people under 18 receiving gender-affirming care such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy.
Haha.
U.S. district court judges elsewhere have blocked state laws banning gender-affirming care in Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana and Oklahoma.
Republican lawmakers introduced more than 500 bills restricting LGBTQ rights this past legislative year, passing more than 70, according to Human Rights Campaign. Twenty states have passed laws banning gender-affirming care for minors.
Sponsors of the laws say they want to protect children who are being misled by parents and doctors and might regret their gender transition.
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Hinkle in his 54-page ruling said “many people with this view tend to disapprove all things transgender and so oppose medical care that supports a person’s transgender existence.”
“The elephant in the room should be noted at the outset. Gender identity is real. The record makes this clear,” the judge wrote after a two-week trial.
Well, that is a really extreme judge, who is clearly himself a child molester.
I just looked him up and he is 71, appointed by Bill Clinton.
So maybe we can’t blame old Meatball for this one.
Overall, Meatball’s policies are fine enough. My point about him has been that his policies are the same as 15 other red state governors, and actually, many of those governors who you’ve never thought about or heard about are much better. The media was never pushing for the governors of Iowa or Montana to be president, despite the fact that their records on everything are twice as good as that of DeSantis.
Probably, most Republican governors moved faster and better than Meatwad on Covid and trannies and black rioters.
I have seen retards on the right who argue that DeSantis is “uniquely remarkable.” This is completely false. I’ve seen retards talk about his “remarkable record on Covid.” Meatball did the lockdowns. Seven (7) different governors refused to do even the initial “two weeks to flatten the curve” hoax. DeSantis went buckwild for almost a year. He also promoted the vax, and then his vax “mandate ban” wasn’t even real and a whole bunch of Floridians lost their jobs.
To be fair, Montana was the only state that did a real mandate ban, but 15 other states did the same thing DeSantis did. His original anti-tranny school bill was worse than the anti-tranny school bills of at least a dozen states, though he replaced that recently. But for over a year, he was being shown up on that front by Brian Kemp.
The Disney stuff has just gotten retarded. He picked all these fights and lost, and now is bogged down and keeps on losing.
The best thing he did, by far, was manage the 2022 election so that there wasn’t massive fraud. That is really the only thing I’ll give to him. But overall, it is pure media hype, and he’s really basically as good of a governor as that dumb bimbo Kristi Noem. Greg Gianforte of Montana would be a much more obvious 2024 candidate, if you thought it made sense to challenge Trump.