In 2023, Florida passed SB254 which bans all transgender medical care for minors, making the provision of such care a felony crime. NCLR, along with GLAD, HRC Foundation, Southern Legal Counsel, and Lowenstein Sandler, filed a case on behalf of transgender youth and their parents to challenge the ban on the grounds that it violated the Equal Protection Rights of trans youth and the Due Process Right of parents to oversee their child’s medical care. In the Third Amended Complaint, we also added adult transgender plaintiffs who faced restrictions on their access to medical care pursuant to Florida law. 

Plaintiffs won a preliminary injunction in June 2023, preventing the law from taking effect. A year later, Plaintiffs also won our case at trial. Defendants appealed the final judgment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, where the court paused the lower court’s judgment and allowed the ban to go back into effect. We are now awaiting the decision of the Eleventh Circuit and the Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti.