Florida Bill Would Make Employers Liable for Costs of Gender Detransition Care
Republican Florida state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia has introduced a bill that would require businesses that cover the costs of gender-transition medical care for their employees to pay for any subsequent detransition care.
Senate Bill 952, called the “Employer Coverage of Gender Dysphoria Treatment,” is also known as the “Reverse Woke Act.”
Specifically, it states that employers that provide coverage of gender dysphoria treatment to their workers will also need to cover the “full costs associated with treatment that reverses such gender dysphoria treatment,” even for individuals that they no longer employ.
Those costs will need to be paid for by the employer “regardless of the rate of coverage provided for the initial treatment” and employers will also be prohibited from “making coverage of the subsequent treatment contingent on whether the employee receives such treatment in this state; creating a right of action for aggrieved persons to recover actual total costs and damages from an employer or former employer, as applicable, under certain circumstances.”…