Jim Clark
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽A federal judge has ruled Florida’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is likely unconstitutional and has issued an injunction halting enforcement of the ban.
Happy Pride, and thank you, federal judiciary!
Skydream tiny flapflaphorse
sOlOw-NHTake that Dick ReSantis!
Colin Cogle 🔵@georgetakei Never thought I’d say “thank you, federal judiciary” in this day and age, but they come through sometimes.
@colincogle Gotta get wins where we can.
GrayGooGlitch 
@georgetakei As much as I want to be happy about this, it doesn't stop the adult HRT ban. The only way to get HRT is through an MD or DO, and you have to fill out a form that literally doesn't exist (a consent form the medical board said they will eventually make, without any kind of indication as to when). This leaves something like 80% of adult trans people in Florida without any means to get their medications.
BoozeFoodTravel@georgetakei Good to have at least some positive news today.
AndyH
Mr. Bruno 
@georgetakei Is Rhonda Santis just playing teeball? He needs a sandbox or something to keep him busy.
Patricia Kayden@georgetakei This is why it’s important to challenge DeSantis. Fight back against fascism. Fight hard!!
Frances LarinaMore so, he said the following:
"“The defendants note that 98% or more of adolescents treated with GnRH agonists progress to cross-sex hormones,” Hinkle wrote. “That is hardly an indictment of the treatment; it is instead consistent with the view that in 98% or more of the cases, the patient’s gender identity did not align with natal sex, this was accurately determined, and the patient was appropriately treated first with GnRH agonists and later with cross-sex hormones.”
- Judge Robert L. Hinkle, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, on one of Florida's arguments for blocking trans teen health care.
“Gender identity is real,” Hinkle reiterated multiple times in his ruling. He accused the defense of enforcing the legislation for political purposes and eschewing medical consensus, saying in part, “the statute and the rules were an exercise in politics, not good medicine.”
AT-AT Assault 🏳️⚧️Look at the GOP "Representative" response to it.
"Florida state Rep. Randy Fine, a Republican supporter of the bill, issued the following statement in response to Tuesday’s ruling:
"“I stopped reading on page 4, when it became clear the order wasn’t worth the paper it is written on. It’s obvious that Hinkle, a DEMOCRAT--APPOINTED JUDGE, IS A SCIENCE-DENYING WOKEIST WHOSE RADICAL ORDER will soon be overturned by jurists who actually believe in science. His decision is so inept that he references Legislative debate on a completely different bill having nothing to do with this issue as a reason to justify his injunction. Pathetic. We will not stop fighting to defend children from those like Hinkle who support child castration and mutilation.”"
All Caps emphasis mine. This is not how legitimate leaders behave.
Fascists believe that legitimacy is determined by who is wielding power.
4Grand@georgetakei DecSantis, his azzwipey wife and his shitbag family should be deported ..fuck them all…dirt
VAVA Mk2@georgetakei I wish I could see how triggered Ron DeSantis is
SLCW💥@georgetakei Florida bigots are big angry... Grrrrrrr 😡
MerryShariI hope it doesn’t take long for the same to happen in MO.
Kevin RussellTo make it perfectly clear, procedures are continuing, or resuming.
Incorrigible Maker for HARRIS@georgetakei
I'm sure #DeathSantis & company are confident that their buddies in the SCOTUS will back their stupid "conservatism"
I'm sure #DeathSantis & company are confident that their buddies in the SCOTUS will back their stupid "conservatism"
Jen Joseforsky@georgetakei Thank goodness!