Federal Judge Halts Florida's Transgender Health Care Ban.

A Florida judge has blocked the state's ban on transgender affirming care, granting a preliminary injunction against state leaders and allowing parents to access medical care for their transgender children. The ban on puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and transition-related surgery has been a priority of Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration, which pushed the Board of Medicine to look into the care last year. The judge called the ban "an exercise in politics, not in good medicine" and stated that transgender people have faced "bigotry."