Court Strikes Down Florida Rule Banning Medicaid For Transgender Treatments
A U.S. court has struck down Florida’s ban on Medicaid coverage for transgender treatments even as the state’s regulator for the health insurance program warned that such procedures can result in harm.
In August, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) adopted a rule that prohibited transgenders in the state from using Medicaid to cover the cost of hormone replacement therapy, puberty blockers, or any other form of procedure aimed at altering the “primary or secondary sexual characteristics” of an individual for the purpose of treating gender dysphoria.
A lawsuit against the rule was filed in September in the Northern District of Florida. In a 54-page decision on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, appointed to the court by President Bill Clinton, struck down the new rule adopted by AHCA….