Queer News Tonight previously reported on the Florida Medical Board's vote to ban Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care. The policy has now been finalized and will go into effect on August 21st. The new regulations state that doctors cannot be reimbursed by Medicaid for providing “puberty blockers, hormones and hormone antagonists, sex reassignment surgeries, and any other procedures that alter primary or secondary sexual characteristics.” When the policy goes into effect, gender-affirming care costs will have to be paid for out-of-pocket by patients on Medicaid. Many opponents are calling this a "poverty tax" on the transgender community, as only individuals who are classified as "low income or very low income" qualify.
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