The Florida legislature passed a bill that bans transgender surgeries for minors and grants jurisdiction over children receiving gender-related treatment to courts in the state. The bill will head to Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R-FL) desk, where he is expected to sign it.
The bill has been amended to include a provision granting courts “temporary emergency jurisdiction” of minors if they have been “subjected to or is threatened with being subjected to sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures.” This temporary jurisdiction would play out most visibly in interstate child custody battles, according to the Poynter Institute.