Today, we filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction against the Florida Medical Boards and Florida Surgeon General, asking the Court for an emergency order blocking the enforcement of the discriminatory bans on gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth in Florida.

When U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom denied the City of Miami’s motion to dismiss in Cooper-Levy v. City of Miami Dec. 6, Southern Legal Counsel and co-counsel crossed the first major hurdle in their federal lawsuit against the city over its practice of seizing and destroying homeless people's property.

Seeking to secure a Florida high-school student’s educational rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Southern Legal Counsel and Three Rivers Legal Services filed a federal complaint against the student’s local school board.

Learn more about the rules being promulgated by the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine to restrict access to treatment for gender dysphoria for minors in the state of Florida. Learn what you can do to get involved today!

LGBTQ+ and health advocacy groups Southern Legal Counsel, Lambda Legal, Florida Health Justice Project, and National Health Law Program, together with international law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, filed a federal lawsuit today challenging Florida’s anti-transgender health care rule denying coverage for transgender Medicaid beneficiaries’ medically necessary gender-affirming medical care. The lawsuit, Dekker, et al., v. Marstiller, et al., Case No. 4:22-cv-00325-RH-MAF (Hinkle, J.), was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida against the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), on behalf of four plaintiffs.