TALLAHASSEE – A trial will start off Tuesday immediately after a federal choose turned down an endeavor by the point out to scuttle a lawsuit that difficulties a determination to prevent Medicaid protection for remedies these types of as puberty blockers and hormone remedy for transgender people.
U.S. District Decide Robert Hinkle on Thursday denied a condition motion for summary judgment, declaring “there are legitimate factual disputes vital to resolving the merits.”
Transgender plaintiffs filed the lawsuit in September in federal courtroom in Tallahassee after the point out Agency for Health Treatment Administration finalized a rule blocking Medicaid reimbursements to well being-care providers for puberty blockers, hormone therapy and sure surgical methods.
The plaintiffs, who are represented by condition and nationwide authorized teams and regulation corporations, argued in the lawsuit that health-related care for the treatment of gender dysphoria is “medically vital, harmless and productive” for transgender adolescents and grownups.
The lawsuit also contended that denial of reimbursements for managing transgender people is discriminatory since the exact same well being-treatment services are “routinely lined by Medicaid when they are for medically important functions other than the treatment method of gender dysphoria.”
The trial will start out soon after the Republican-managed Legislature on Thursday passed a monthly bill (SB 254) that would bar physicians from offering treatments these kinds of as puberty blockers and hormone remedy to transgender minors.
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