FL: Amendment to bill banning gender-affirming care for minors allows court intervention
One of the Sessions most controversial bills is getting an amendment from its sponsor before being heard Monday.
Jacksonville Republican Sen. Clay Yarboroughs SB 254 would give the state temporary emergency authority over children if they are at risk or are getting what some call gender-affirming care and others call sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures.
In addition, it would require health care providers to say they dont provide the treatment to children younger than 18 or face losing their license.
Yarboroughs amendment allows the states courts broad discretion about when and how to intervene in gender-affirming treatment when one parent supports it and the other does not.
Both parents have a right to be involved in the upbringing of a child, Yarborough said in announcing his proposal.
With the exception of extreme circumstances, custody arrangements typically respect the rights of both parents to be involved in major decisions and events in a childs life. If one parent is attempting to authorize drastic, life-altering gender dysphoria therapies and surgeries that would forever change the life of a young child, and would be illegal under other provisions of this bill, then by all means the other parent should have the ability to have a court review the custody agreement.
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