A new Florida law banning gender-affirming care for minors is getting a lot of attention nationally as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for president, but it's also impacting transgender adults.

The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements.

Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    271·
    1 year ago

    The same reasoning the Nazies called themselves socialist, despite being a fascist dictatorship. Why China says they are communist, while being a dictatorship with limited capitalism. And the US thinking it’s a democracy when it’s a Oligarchy with limited local democracy.

    Dumb people think words mean more than actions/reality.

      • Fugicara@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        1 year ago

        As in because the pendulum swings from the far left to the far right? Or were you just mistakenly conflating those two completely opposite political theories?

        • ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works
          12·
          1 year ago

          Calling the Nazis far right is ignoring that their politics were more complicated than a simple 2D spectrum. They adopted ideas from both left and right.

          • Fugicara@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            They certainly adopt rhetoric from the left which helps them get elected, then enact exclusively right-wing policies when they actually have power, sure. Fascists usually use populist rhetoric to get into power but then they never do anything to actually reduce inequality (because that would be the opposite of fascism).

              • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                For all the incessant whining conservatives do about being called fascists, most of the time I see someone call another person “fascist,” it’s a conservative shrieking it at someone who doesn’t want to use the government to oppress vulnerable minorities.

                • Warfarin@lemmy.world
                  113·
                  1 year ago

                  The fact you want to suppress speech and ban as many people as you can who don’t agree is what makes you fascist

                  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    The fact you want to suppress speech and ban as many people as you can

                    And what led you to that idea?

      • Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de
        81·
        1 year ago

        Not all authoritarianism is fascism. All fascism is authoritarian, of course, but fascism isn’t the only authoritarian system of government.