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Becky Sullivan

A new lawsuit is challenging Florida Medicaid's exclusion of transgender health care

LGBTQ activists and their supporters rally in support of transgender people on the steps of City Hall in New York, NY on October 24, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

A new federal lawsuit has challenged the state of Florida's effort to exclude gender-affirming health care for transgender people from its state Medicaid program, calling the rule illegal, discriminatory and a "dangerous governmental action."

A coalition of legal groups filed the lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of four Florida Medicaid recipients, who are either transgender or parents of transgender youth, in the Northern District of Florida.

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