A ruling from US District Court Judge Robert Hinkle on 6 June grants a preliminary injunction that blocks enforcement of a law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis and rules from the Florida Department of Medicine. Those rules prevent a group of trans youth who sued the state from accessing widely accepted care, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, and the ban on treatment has been paused while their legal challenge plays out. In his ruling, Judge Hinkle writes, “The elephant in the room should be noted at the outset. Gender identity is real. The record makes this clear. The medical defendants, speaking through their attorneys, have admitted it...Still, an unspoken suggestion running just below the surface in some of the proceedings that led to adoption of the statute and rules at issue – and just below the surface in the testimony of some of the defense experts – is that transgender identity is not real, that it is made up...Any proponent of the challenged statute and rules should put up or shut up: do you acknowledge that there are individuals with actual gender identities opposite their natal sex, or do you not? Dog whistles ought not be tolerated." #Queer Up Breaking News