https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/254/?Tab=BillText

The unthinkable has happened.

The Florida Legislature has engrossed and sent to Ron DeSantis's desk Senate Bill 254, which not only codifies existing bans against gender-affirming care for minors, but places severe restrictions on the provision of gender-affirming care for adults and allows the state and noncustodial parents to kidnap transgender kids and kids they allege are transgender. Not only will this subject numerous transgender kids to the hell of conversion therapy, but it will allow the state to threaten to terminate political opponents' custody rights over their cisgender kids unless they immediately bend the knee and fall silent, as SB254 classifies the allegation that kids may be given gender-affirming care as an "emergency" in and of itself and does not force plaintiffs to provide any evidence whatsoever that said kids are actually transgender before seizing them. It is also highly likely they will use this to strip away the parental rights of transgender adults, instituting yet another form of genocide against said adults.

SB254 will become law the moment Ron DeSantis signs it.

Please do your best to stay safe. And please don't give up hope. The courts have been taking our side quite a bit lately. It's possible they will immediately kill this horrible piece of legislation.