A new lawsuit is challenging Florida Medicaid's exclusion of transgender health care
One plaintiff said the state's Medicaid program pre-approved him in August for a chest surgery scheduled for later this year. Then the state enacted a new rule excluding such treatments from the plan.
A new federal lawsuit has challenged the state of Florida's effort to exclude gender-affirming health care for transgender people from its state Medicaid program, calling the rule illegal, discriminatory and a "dangerous governmental action."
A coalition of legal groups filed the lawsuit Wednesdayon behalf of four Florida Medicaid recipients, who are either transgender or parents of transgender youth,
