Senior Judge Robert Hinkle said the Florida law banning gender experimentation on children was unconstitutional and tossed the law, blocking it completely.
(YES, FOR REAL.)
The law had been under an injunction from Hinkle since its passing.
Throughout the hearings and in his judgment, Hinkle has been openly hostile to opponents of puberty blockers for children and fully on board with the transgenda.
In all of the 105 pages of his decision, Hinkle never once explains how Florida's law is unconstitutional, and goes to great lengths to circumvent a higher court's precedent allowing Alabama's ban to stand in Eknes-Tucker vs. Ivey.
Ultimately, Hinkle puppets the LGBTQ talking points to support his claim of unconstitutionality:
'Some transgender opponents invoke religion to support their position, just as some once invoked religion to support their racism or misogyny,' Hinkle wrote in his 105-page decision. 'Transgender opponents are of course free to hold their beliefs. 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,' he continued. 'To paraphrase a civil-rights advocate from an earlier time, the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.'
Honestly, it's kind of weird because in 2022, the same judge upheld a different Florida law banning transgender procedures and said the constitution has nothing to do with medical care, and of course the state can set regulations.
One has to wonder who got to him?
Thankfully, the ruling does not apply to gender surgeries for children, which remain blocked in Florida. It only overturns puberty blockers.
A small win, considering the danger that puberty blockers present to children.
Governor Ron DeSantis responded in a statement:
'Through their elected representatives, the people of Florida acted to protect children in this state, and the Court was wrong to override their wishes,' the statement said. 'As we've seen here in Florida, the United Kingdom, and across Europe, there is no quality evidence to support the chemical and physical mutilation of children. These procedures do permanent, life-altering damage to children, and history will look back on this fad in horror.'
Hopefully, the Eleventh Circuit will kick the case down and continue to protect children in Florida the way they did in Alabama.
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