Overview
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a 75-page complaint on December 9 in the 19th Judicial Circuit Court in St. Lucie County.
- The suit alleges violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and the state RICO law by misleading parties about the reversibility and efficacy of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minors.
- The complaint asks the court to impose $1 million in civil penalties per defendant, levy $10,000 for each alleged false claim, and bar the groups from advertising pediatric interventions as safe or reversible.
- Uthmeier announced the action in a video on X and linked it to Florida’s 2023 restriction on gender-affirming care for minors.
- Conservative advocacy groups publicly praised the filing, while no responses from the defendant medical organizations were reported at the time of publication.