#Florida GOP

[wayouts123]

Hypocrisy at it’s republican finest

[zinniajones]

Florida, SB 254, total HRT ban for adults: 5/25/2023 update

FLORIDA HRT CRISIS DAY 8

Note that in the span of two days, we have had to revise this policy map from including one last way (green) for adults in Florida to get refills (no new prescriptions) from an MD/DO, to removing the one last green endpoint, and replacing it with red/yellow stripe. It actually is unknown whether even refills can be prescribed by MDs/DOs; and because of that unknown, MDs and DOs are choosing not to provide refills either.

There are now NO ways for trans adults in Florida to even obtain refills of their established HRT prescriptions.

This is based on the reports we're receiving of trans people's current experiences attempting to fill their established prescriptions since 5/17/2023 - in a complete vacuum of any information for patients who just lost access to their medication, whether from state agencies or even from the state LGBT organizations that were supposed to protect us from exactly this happening to us.

This shouldn't come down to us alone. WE NEED YOU TO STEP UP.

TRANS ADULTS IN FLORIDA ARE NOT ABLE TO GET THEIR HRT PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED OR REFILLED ANYWHERE.

WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DO SO SINCE WEDNESDAY MAY 17

IT HAS BEEN 8 DAYS

THE CLOCK IS RUNNING

The next in-person meeting of the Boards of Medicine, to draft highly restrictive "emergency rules" further regulating adult HRT, is next week!

Florida Board of Medicine/Board of Osteopathic Medicine Joint Rules/Legislative Committee

THURSDAY, JUNE 1 - 2:45 PM The Westshore Grand 4860 West Kennedy Boulevard Tampa, FL 33609

And by the way? DESANTIS HIRED THE FLORIDA HATE GROUP THAT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR A LAW FIRM'S $15,000 HIT JOB ON WPATH SOC

DESANTIS APPOINTEES ON THE BOARDS OF MEDICINE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROMOTING CONVERSION THERAPY AND INVOLUNTARY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALIZATION OF TRANS PEOPLE

The Florida GOP and the DeSantis administration are directly responsible for a crime in progress against thousands of transgender Floridians!

GIVE US BACK OUR PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS NOW

[tomorrowusa]

Ron DeSantis continues to observe Black History Month in his unique way.

Ron’s “book club” is actually a physical club.

Those scissors are symbolic of DeSantis wanting to cut Social Security.

Ron DeSantis once expressed support for privatizing Social Security and Medicare giving his rivals an opening

[sealpup9]

If your response to florida passing bills that would allow transgender genocide is "now is the time to leave florida" you really have no understanding of how the world works.

Important information below in regards to data on transgender people.

The poverty rates of LGBTQIA+ people are higher than those not in the community. 1 2 3

About 3 in 10 trans adults are living in poverty. (29%)

These numbers are even worse for trans poc: About half of Latinx transgender adults are living in poverty (48%) About Four in 10 black transgender adults are living in poverty. (39%) Source

On top of this, according to a mass survey done by William's Institute in 2017, 4.6% of Florida's population is LGBT. That's the 9th highest state percentage wise, you can actually see it pretty clearly on this map:

Look at the % of those LGBT people with Children.

And before people come saying "well this is from 2017" and "this includes LGB people as well": You're absolutely right. As of right now it's very difficult to find information on the number of trans people living in each state. This is part of why it's so hard for laws to be passed in regards to rights of trans people. Right now, a lot of studies include trans people in the LGBT category, not separate.

Census-wise, gender identity was only just included in census reports in 2021. In 2021, 0.6% of the adult population who responded to this survey identified as transgender. BUT KEEP IN MIND THIS IS A SMALLER SAMPLE SIZE, AS THIS IS EXPERIMENTAL DATA.

Gender Identity has yet to be included in one of the U.S. 10-year Census. In 2020, data was collected for same-sex couples in the household, but that was it. LGBT Data was supposed to be collected, but e a certain president struck LGBT data collection off of the census in 2020.

I need people to understand two things:

LGBTQIA+ People exist everywhere and are trying very, very VERY hard to fight for their rights. The things that are making it hard are a lack of collection of data, human rights violations being passed into law, and things like gerrymandering separating voters out and squashing their voices.

LGBTQIA+ People have higher rates of poverty.

Stating that any trans people living in Florida should simply leave is an extremely classist and privileged statement.

Think about it this way, and I can't believe I need to put this into elementary school wording, but sometimes people just need to realize the absurdity of their statements:

If your state suddenly put the death penalty in place for people with your eye color for simply existing, would you be able to move to another state without that law? Would you personally have the emotional, physical, mental ability to leave? What about the finances? Are you trapped in a lease with your apartment? Maybe you have children and finding schooling would be difficult. Do you have the means of transportation? How about finding affordable housing in a state nearby?

Do you see how ridiculous it is to just tell someone to move? Not to mention that the more people in the demographic who move away and leave, the less people of that demographic exist in the state, and the more likely it is that more laws will be passed in order to criminalize and kill people in that demographic.

This isn't a black and white problem. This is a multi-faceted issue and there's no way I can delve into every single thing that led up to or continues to push anti trans legislature in Florida alone.

What matters is we spread ACCURATE information on how what these bills entail. We show support for trans people living in states like Florida. We donate to causes trying to support those people: The Trevor Project | Planned Parenthood

If anyone else has information on places to donate to directly help folks in Florida, feel free to add.

Just please remember that NOT EVERYONE CAN LEAVE FLORIDA ON A WHIM.

[spiralsketchbook]

Has anyone Miku Binder'd Ron Desantis or do i have to do everything around here?

[mylionheart2]

The Handmaid's Tale: Series Trailer • A Hulu Original

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[mysharona1987]

[cynicalclassicist]

We have to hope that Florida can soon turn blue again. It can happen!

[ichooseyoupikajew]

White Queer People: Listen, Jews. You need to accept that your Israeli family members are evil and admit that they need to die. Israel/Palestine is *not* that complicated!

Also, White Queer People (who are related to GOP State Senators who are directly voting for transphobic policies): How dare people tell us to disavow our family members! You don’t get the right to tell us queer people how we should react to our Republican family members. It’s very complicated!

[zinniajones]

These "expert" pediatricians were paid by a far-right legal group to come up with evidence to attack the WPATH transgender standards of care

What this is: Leaked documents show the anti-LGBT legal group Alliance Defending Freedom paying manufactured experts to attack WPATH’s transgender standards of care, asking them to find evidence for harmful anti-trans myths that they knew were baseless and unsubstantiated. This is an original finding and report by Zinnia Jones (she/her), a transgender Florida resident of 11 years whose access to HRT is now jeopardized by the enactment of state law and policy based on work from these same experts.

Detailed summary: From 2019 onward, states across the US have been faced with an intensely active wave of reused anti-trans experts, recurring characters who keep repeating the same spurious arguments against gender-affirming care in court cases, legislatures, and other policy bodies. Where did they come from, and why did this start happening?

Due to the Florida-based anti-LGBT hate group American College of Pediatricians choosing to set one of their Google Drive folders to be publicly viewable by anyone, files were released this month showing the contents of their staff’s communications and other working notes over several years.

These documents included records of the Alliance Defending Freedom - another hate group who are also responsible for bringing the mifepristone case with ACP as a plaintiff - approaching ACP's leaders in 2018 and 2019 to offer them a grant of $10,000 or more. The ADF wanted the pediatricians “to draft a white paper that refutes the WPATH Standards of Care”, “for use in litigation and should also benefit many other allies at State and Federal Level”.

ACP’s president Quentin Van Meter and executive director Michelle Cretella promptly got to work on this “Special Project”, and the ADF hosted expert witness workshops at ACP's conferences. ACP members including Van Meter went on to present anti-trans testimony in several ADF-litigated cases and ADF-involved trans youth care bans.

In May 2022, Van Meter authored a sham report for Florida Medicaid to justify their trans coverage exclusion, mostly drawing from previous ACP position statements; court filings later revealed Michelle Cretella was recommended by the Florida governor’s office, and she pointed the way to all the other anti-trans experts hired by Florida in 2022 to support the Medicaid exclusion of transition care.

One notable document found in the ACP’s drive contains “Transgender Research Requests”, with the ADF asking Cretella and other ACP leaders to “substantiate” now-commonplace anti-trans talking points. These included bizarre claims by the ADF such as “it is normal during adolescence for children to go through a phase when they identify (to some degree) with the opposite sex”, and “For those who have undergone hormone therapy and genital change surgery, a paper that says they are no happier (and perhaps worse off if the research supports it)”.

The ADF was asking this anti-trans group to come up with anything that could support the arguments they were already planning to make.

This appears to be one of the very sites where those baseless myths about suicide, social contagion and other supposed harms, now regularly repeated in court cases and testimony and uncritically accepted by the mainstream right wing, were conceived and gestated.

These same experts then substantially reused these work products in their reports for Florida Medicaid, a public health agency whose accepted standards determination process is supposed to be a transparent and open-ended evaluation of peer-reviewed medical evidence.

Altogether, these documents appear to demonstrate a paid smear by a hate group and right-wing law firm against a leading professional transgender healthcare organization following the best available evidence and medical practices, as well as misconduct on the part of ACP experts who reused this work in their reports for a Florida public health agency.

(asks are open)

[tomorrowusa]

Gov. Ron DeSantis prepares for Black History Month in Florida.

Ron DeSantis is a racist and the Florida GOP is racist for going along with him.

DeSantis is afraid of hurting the feelings of descendants of slave owners, KKK members, and neo-Confederates who vote in Republican primaries.

Retired Prof. Dr. Marvin Dunn will tell you a lot of things about African-American history which DeSantis doesn’t want Floridians to know about.

Dr. Dunn’s book A History of Florida: Through Black Eyes is a nice gift for history-curious Floridians.

[alwaysbewoke]

and they're at it AGAIN!!!

[mylionheart2]

‘’REPUBLICANS, HOW DEPRAVED ARE YOU?‘‘ - MIKA

GIRLS & WOMEN IN AMERICA ARE UNDER ATTACK BY THE REPULICAN PARTY. GIRLS AND WOMEN’S LIVES ARE ON THE LINE. I JOIN MY SISTERS IN PROTEST ON THIS FOURTH OF JULY! 

Amnesty International, The United Nation, The International Criminal Court and most countries including underdeveloped nations describe forced birth as a crime against humanity. Maternal mortality rates are higher in the U.S. than anywhere else in the developed world. Women and girls in the United States are now second class citizens and are in danger every day and dying every day in America.

On this 4th of July I join the thousands of women in the United Sates who are protesting the hostile takeover of America by the Republican Party. They have committed crimes against girls, women and humanity.

[queerism1969]

[animentality]