A Clinton-appointed judge struck down Florida's Medicaid ban on transgender healthcare.
Ron DeSantis' office directed the state's healthcare agency to do an analysis on Medicaid patients who received transition-related medical care.
Roughly 12,000 transgender patients in Florida are enrolled in the program, according to Lambda Legal, one of the firms that represented transgender plaintiffs in the case.
"Many people with this view tend to disapprove all things transgender and so oppose medical care that supports a person's transgender existence."
Hinkle, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, is the same judge who, earlier this month, blocked portions of a Florida law that aimed to ban transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
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