Topic: Florida's Board of Medicine Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Minors...

[Jessica_Rose]

Florida's Board of Medicine Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Minors. Does the Science Back That Up?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/florida-s-board-of-medicine-bans-gender-affirming-care-for-minors-does-the-science-back-that-up/ar-AA18HHq0?cvid=61b092555748491e8cdd9a127ac815de&ei=47

Story by Alan Mozes

THURSDAY, March 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In state after state, doors are quickly slamming shut on the ability of doctors to provide gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

The newest restriction is set to take effect Thursday in Florida, where that state’s Board of Medicine decided last month to ban the use of all puberty blockers, hormone therapies and/or surgeries for any patient under 18, whether or not those minors have parental approval for such care.

The ban stems from an effort first launched by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Surgeon General back in April 2022, when the pair issued a joint call for the ban. That was followed in August 2022 by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration’s rewriting of Medicaid coverage rules that disallowed reimbursements for any gender-affirming treatments involving both minors and adults.

Minors who were already receiving puberty blockers before the new ban may continue taking them. Otherwise, the ban is complete: Florida transgender minors are no longer allowed access to gender-affirming medical care, even in a clinical trial.

As a board ruling — rather than a new state law — Florida doctors who violate the ban will not face criminal charges, though they will be subject to censure, fines and the potential loss of their right to practice medicine in the state.

[Tess100]

I don't know what to do with the heart break and outrage I feel with each of these headlines I read.  What is going on in this country?

[Jessica_Rose]

There are some people who are standing up for our community. Like the Nebraska state legislator who is filibustering ALL bills which are coming through, even the ones she supports, to protest some hateful bills. The best things we can do are vote, and prove to everyone how wrong the haters are by not stooping to their level.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

[Misato]

There are some people who are standing up for our community. Like the Nebraska state legislator who is filibustering ALL bills which are coming through, even the ones she supports, to protest some hateful bills. The best things we can do are vote, and prove to everyone how wrong the haters are by not stooping to their level.

Love always -- Jessica Rose

Cavanaugh is legit. Would love to see more like her.

[Jessica_K]

In the US there are many state laws governing these issues, debated in chambers with members able to provide counters to the arguments. Here is in the UK the government decrees it is closing the GID (the only clinic for gender health for under 18s in England) no more blockers, and replacing them with a local network with talking therapies to identify mental issues (conversion under another name).