Transgender Floridians Seek Emergency Block on Adult Healthcare Restrictions in SB 254. Motion for a preliminary injunction in Doe v. Ladapo follows the July 21 filing of an amended complaint adding four adult plaintiffs to the suit challenging Florida’s healthcare ban and seeking class-wide relief for all impacted transgender adults and minors.

Organizations Suing to Stop Florida’s Transgender Health Ban Add Challenge to Restrictions on Adult Care and Request for Class-wide Relief

Register today for the Back to School Safety Planning Webinar for LGBTQ+ Families, which will take place on July 19th at 6:00pm. Simone Chriss, Director of SLC’s LGBTQ+ Rights work, will educate parents on the current legal landscape, recent changes to laws and rules impacting LGBTQ+ students, the existing protections for LGBTQ+ students, and she will provide practical guidance and concrete action steps to ensure a successful start of the school year.

Today, a U.S. District Court Judge struck down Florida’s anti-transgender health care rule that denied the state’s transgender Medicaid beneficiaries coverage for evidence-based, widely accepted gender-affirming medical care. The ruling came in Dekker v. Weida, a federal lawsuit challenging the rule filed by Southern Legal Counsel, Lambda Legal, Florida Health Justice Project, the National Health Law Program, and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

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.

DAYTONA BEACH, FL – Southern Legal Counsel, along with pro bono attorneys Sabarish Neelakanta of SPN Law and Paul George of Holland & Knight, filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Daytona Beach ordinance that prohibits asking for donations in certain public spaces.

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!

Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and Southern Legal Counsel (SLC) filed a lawsuit against the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office on behalf of the nonprofit civil rights organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations-Florida (CAIR-FL). The lawsuit argues that the Pasco County Sheriff Office’s refusal to provide demographic information about its predictive policing program targeting students is a violation of the Florida Public Records Act.