Whether the bills will pass remains unclear, however, both the Florida House and Senate are Republican-led and members have signaled these proposals are a legislative priority. Representatives for DeSantis told Insider the Governor would comment on the proposals "if and when" the bills pass through the state legislature and make it to his desk to be signed into law. "This is Republicans, empowered by Ron DeSantis, methodically pushing policies to push trans people out of the state of Florida or erase them from public life entirely." "That has quickly escalated to now, where we have this frightening plan to criminalize and imprison parents who help their own children access gender-affirming care, which is to tell you that it was never about women's sports," Smith told Insider. Smith, the first openly LGBTQ Latino lawmaker in the state, said the anti-trans legislation in Florida has escalated quickly in recent years after a bill was introduced in 2021 that banned trans kids from participating in school sports, which lawmakers claimed was over concern about fairness. "It's government-imposed gender conformity, and if it isn't stopped, it will not end here." "Florida Republicans are methodically pushing policies that encourage transgender people and their families to flee the state or erase them from public life," Carlos Guillermo Smith, a special project manager for Equality Florida and a former representative in the Florida House, told Insider.
Makes it a misdemeanor for a trans person to enter a bathroom that does not align with their sex assigned at birth.Allow the state to modify child custody agreements if a parent supports their trans child in transitioning and classify providing gender-affirming care as child abuse.In addition to a proposed Florida House bill that would prohibit a person's sex from being changed on their birth certificate and make gender-affirming care for minors illegal, GOP legislators in the state of Florida also proposed bills this month that would:
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It often indicates a user profile.Ī series of new bills in Florida taking aim at health care providers offering gender-affirming care and parents who support their trans kids are part of a targeted attack against gender nonconforming people in the state, legal and mental health experts told Insider, with the aim to "erase them from public life entirely." Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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