TAKE ACTION TODAY - On Thursday, March 23 at 8:30 am EST/7:00 am CT the Florida Senate Fiscal Policy committee will meet to vote on SB 254 a bill that criminalizes Transgender and Gender Diverse healthcare in Florida and creates custody protections for parents who oppose gender affirming care for their children. This is the LAST SENATE COMMITTEE before this vicious attack on trans youth hits the Senate Floor.  This dangerous bill:

1) criminalizes gender affirming care for trans+ youth and adults (3rd degree felony for healthcare professionals who violate provisions laid out about children and 1st degree misdemeanor for provisions about adult trans+ care),

2) sets up a safe haven in Florida for parents who oppose gender affirming care so they can LEGALLY KIDNAP their children and remove them from parents who support gender affirming care for their children. This sets a dangerous legal precedent in Florida, and across the nation, and will likely lead declaring gender affirming care as child abuse by Florida state agencies, courts and/or the Governor,

3) redefines sex prescriptions and procedures in a way that denies transgender existence and excludes affirming care for trans+ people in Florida,

4) changes the definition of sex to deny that trans folx exist through the following language - sex is defined as “classification of a person as either male or female based on the organization of the human body of the person for a specific reproductive role, as indicated by the person’s sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, and external and internal genitalia present at birth”

Please send an email to members of the Florida Senate Fiscal Policy committee today and tell them to VOTE NO on SB 254.  A template letter has been written for you and it only takes 1 minute to send or 3 minutes to modify and make your own.  

NOTE: THIS IS A DIFFERENT EMAIL than the one you may have sent to the Senate Health Policy committee as the bill language and the target committee members have changed.