A new GOP target is emerging: health insurance coverage for transgender adults and their essential medical needs.
A person walks past a transgender flag during the TransFest 2023 in the Queens borough of New York City on July 29, 2023., which currently mandates that transgender individuals in Florida continue to be offered coverage under Medicaid. In 2022, the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration introduced adeclaring that transgender care, irrespective of age, is experimental and thus shouldn’t be covered by the state’s Medicaid program.
The letter, principally authored by Attorneys General Marshall, Griffin, and Skrmetti from Alabama, Arkansas, and Tennessee respectively, aims to reverse the, which overturned abortion rights, eight separate times. They voice concerns that if the district court upholds Medicaid coverage, by imposing heightened scrutiny on laws affecting transgender individuals, it might similarly apply heightened scrutiny to abortion rights.introduced in June 2022.
The letter represents the latest attack on adult trans healthcare. In the last year, several states and organizations have indicated that trans adult healthcare is the next front for anti-trans policies. Florida recently passed a law that has blocked up toThe will of the Republican party to target all trans people appears to be growing. Not long ago, Michael Knowles advocated forhave voiced support for national restrictions on gender-affirming care.
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