"Transgender opponents are of course free to hold their beliefs. But they are not free to discriminate against transgender individuals just for being transgender," Judge Robert Hinkle said in a forthright 105-page ruling.
The appeals court in August put a stay on Hinkle's ruling pending its own deliberations, setting up what are expected to be lively oral arguments early next year as lawyers for the state attempt to defend one of the most extreme pieces of DeSantis's culture war agenda.
"The evidence showed just so plainly that animosity towards transgender people [has been] driving these laws, from a number of truly extraordinary statements from the governor, the boards of medicine, from state legislators openly expressing their disapproval of transgender people, and some calling transgender people demons, imps, mutants,"…
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