Florida's 'Reverse Woke Act' bill requires employers to cover detransition care 

A Florida bill proposed this week would require companies offering gender-affirming healthcare to cover an employee’s detransition.

The bill, known as the Reverse Woke Act was filed on Monday by Republican Senator Blaise Ingoglia. If passed by the Florida state legislature, the law would take effect on July 1. 

According to the legislation, if any company covers the cost of a gender dysphoria treatment for an employee, such as “surgery, hormone replacement therapy, or any other procedure or treatment that assists persons with gender dysphoria in transitioning to their self-identified gender,” the company will also be required to cover all of the costs for treatments that reverse the procedure. 

Under the proposed bill, the companies that fail to pay the “total costs” of treatments to “reverse gender dysphoria treatment” could be subjected to lawsuits from current or past employees. 

The proposed bill will protect Florida’s residents from being "used as political pawns to advance a leftist agenda for the Governor of California," said Ingoglia, referring to California’s new law that gives protects minors receiving gender-transitioning treatments.  

"Woke businesses need to be held accountable when offering to pay for gender-affirming surgeries in other states, such as California because they are nothing more than political decisions masquerading as healthcare and human resource decisions," Ingoglia said. 

The proposed bill comes as other GOP-led states are considering similar bills that would ban gender-affirming treatments, including Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.