Overview
- A Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday lifted an injunction that had blocked Florida from pursuing its December 2025 consumer‑protection suit against the American Academy of Pediatrics, WPATH and the Endocrine Society.
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier says the groups misled the public about evidence, suicidality benefits and the reversibility of puberty blockers, and he has framed the case as enforcement of state consumer and racketeering laws.
- The AAP sued Uthmeier in federal court, arguing the state action is retaliatory and violates its First Amendment and associational rights, and that federal courts should stop the state case while those claims are resolved.
- A coalition of 21 state attorneys general filed an amicus brief supporting Florida’s appeal and urged that Illinois federal courts should not preempt how Florida courts apply Florida law.
- If Florida prevails in state court, the case could limit how medical societies write guidance and speak about transgender care for minors and could change clinical communications, regulatory risk and parents’ access to treatments.