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Judge Robert L. Hinkle of the Federal District Court in Tallahassee ruled on Tuesday against upholding a Florida law that banned sex change surgeries, cross sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors.
The Southern Legal Counsel and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation challenged Florida SB 254 last July, allegingthe Florida law deprived parents from making “necessary” medical decisions for their children. Hinkle, who was nominated by former President Bill Clinton, wrote in his decision that the law was an “unconstitutional” restriction of “widely accepted gender-affirming medical care.”
“Transgender opponents are of course free to hold their beliefs,” Hinkle wrote in the decision. “But they are not free to discriminate against transgender individuals just for being transgender. In time, discrimination against transgender individuals will diminish, just as racism and misogyny have diminished. To paraphrase a civil-rights advocate from an earlier time, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
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