GLMA Condemns Florida’s Newest Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws, Including Sweeping Attacks on LGBTQ+ Health Care. These bills represent a significant escalation of the continued legislative attack against the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals everywhere. Learn more in this 🧵⤵️

SB1580 Protections of Medical Conscience: Allows healthcare providers + payors to refuse to provide healthcare services to Floridians based on their “personal beliefs,” effectively creating a license to discriminate.

SB1580 also grants providers and payors full immunity from liability over any negative consequences resulting from their denial of care.

SB254 Treatments for “Sex Reassignment”: Criminalizes gender-affirming care for minors & severely restricts access for many adults by prohibiting licensed professionals such as physician’s assistants and nurse practitioners from providing this care.

SB254 requires the immediate license suspension for health care practitioners arrested for providing gender-affirming care to minors or “attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to” provide such care.

HB1521 Facility Requirements Based On Sex: Criminalizes trans people using the bathroom. Prohibits willfully entering restrooms or changing facilities unless the gender designation aligns with the individuals assigned sex at birth.

Under HB1521 trans people are required to leave the restroom or gendered facility when asked to do so. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

HB1521 affects government-owned buildings including airports, convention centers, stadiums, state parks, beaches & educational facilities. Failure to enforce this discriminatory policy could lead to the revocation of operating licenses by state AG.

HB1069 Education: An expansion of the previous “Don’t Say Gay” legislation to 8th grade and to all private schools. The prior law was already expanded to 12th grade via administrative rules by the Florida Department of Education.

HB1069 includes a definition of “sex” for Florida Early Learning-20 Education Code, as well as requirements for instruction relating to topics such as gender identity, human sexuality, and reproductive health.

HB1069 prevents district school boards from imposing or enforcing requirements that personnel or students be referenced with pronouns that do not correspond with the individual’s biological sex - as defined in the bill.