Are you in Florida? Oppose Senate Bill 254.

[redsixwing]

Florida Senate Bill 254 would make it a crime to provide sex confirmation treatment of any sort to people under the age of 18, and provide a legal framework to take trans kids away from their parents, and to take all kids away from trans parents.

79 61.517 Temporary emergency jurisdiction.—
80 (1) A court of this state has temporary emergency
81 jurisdiction if the child is present in this state and the child
82 has been abandoned or it is necessary in an emergency to protect
83 the child because the child, or a sibling or parent of the
84 child, is subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse
85 or is at risk of or is being subjected to the provision of sex
86 reassignment prescriptions or procedures as defined in s.
87 456.001.

A more articulate shareable article, courtesy of BusinessInsider

It appears that Equality Florida is covering the bill, and has taken action for trans rights in the past.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

to take all kids away from parents who either are trans themselves or have a trans kid, is how I'm reading that

which could theoretically be used by a trans kid to protect them and their siblings from genuinely abusive parents, but never will be

[redsixwing]

....yep. That's how I read it too.

[minoanmiss]

I wonder, between these two articles and this post, how many bills Florida has under way that shouldn't be protested:


https://news.yahoo.com/florida-bill-require-bloggers-write-235753494.html?guccounter=1


https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/02/23/florida-bill-would-end-diversity-programs-ban-majors-shift-power-universities/

[redsixwing]

So many. DeSantis is really pushing hard.