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FEDERAL APPEAL PANEL SET TO HEAR TRANSGENDER MEDICAID COVERAGE CASE

Transgender care Federal appeal panel set to hear transgender Medicaid coverage
case (WFTV.com News Staff)

May 18, 2024 at 3:46 a.m. UTC
By News Service Florida and WFTV.com News Staff


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments in September in a battle about whether
Florida violated federal laws by blocking Medicaid coverage for transgender
people seeking hormone therapy and puberty blockers.

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A hearing is slated the week of Sept. 16 in Birmingham, Ala., according to a
notice issued last week by the appeals court. Lawyers for Gov. Ron DeSantis’
administration appealed last June after U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle found
that the prohibition on Medicaid coverage for hormone therapy and puberty
blockers violated federal health-care laws and the U.S. Constitution’s Equal
Protection Clause.

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The lawsuit was filed in 2022 on behalf of two transgender adults and the
parents of two transgender minors after the state Agency for Health Care
Administration adopted a rule that barred the coverage.

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The lawsuit was updated last year to include a new state law that similarly
prevented coverage.



DeSantis and many other Republican leaders across the country have made a
priority in recent years of trying to restrict treatments for transgender people
with gender dysphoria.

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The federal government defines gender dysphoria clinically as “significant
distress that a person may feel when sex or gender assigned at birth is not the
same as their identity.”



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