The Florida Department of Health has released their proposed ban on “gender-affirming” treatment, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and sex change surgeries for minors, along with requiring “informed consent” for anyone over 18 who wants to undergo said “treatment.”
Florida’s Health Department, run by Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, sent an official rulemaking petition to the state’s Board of Medicine, the agency responsible for the regulation of physicians.
The Health Department recommended that both “sex reassignment surgery or any other procedure that alters primary or secondary sexual characteristics for the treatment of gender dysphoria,” and “puberty blocking, hormone, and hormone antagonist therapies for the treatment of gender dysphoria,” be completely banned for minors in the state of Florida.
For anyone over 18, who still wishes to pursue said “gender-affirming” treatment, they must have informed consent before any “care” can go ahead.
In the proposed consent forms, the Florida Health Department notes that the treatments are experimental, may cause infertility, and that there is no good evidence to suggest they work.
It’s Sunday morning and the State of FL DOH has released their disgusting proposed transphobic rule that would BAN access to gender affirming care for those under the age of 18 & create restrictions for adults too. pic.twitter.com/1oW2ImTR4n
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨 (@AnnaForFlorida) July 31, 2022
“The Department further proposes that the Board issue guidance allowing physicians to provide appropriate care for patients currently undergoing hormone therapy at the time of the adoption of this rule or upon entry into this state,” the petition continued.
This decision follows a 46-page report from the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration released in June, which covers various pieces of medical literature on the subject of supposed transgender care.
The report concluded that not only do studies suggesting that such services stop suicide attempts are “either are either low or very low quality and rely on unreliable methods such as surveys and retrospective analyses,” but that the available evidence suggests the opposite.
In the rulemaking petition, the Florida Health Department argued that the “lack of quality evidence” supporting “gender-affirming care” has created “confusion” in the medical community:
“This confusion has caused practitioners to forgo less invasive treatment options and rush patients into immediate chemical regimes and surgical procedures without full consideration of their efficacy, safety, and long-term repercussions.”
Ladapo, who previously recommended a halt on hormone treatment and other such transgender “care” in April, noted on Twitter one day before the rulemaking petition was released that the FDA is now concerned that puberty blockers may cause brain swelling and vision loss in children, but that “advocates for using this treatment… in children don’t seem to care.”
He concluded that Florida would “always put data over ideology.”
The @US_FDA is concerned that puberty blockers may cause pseudotumor cerebri, but advocates of using this treatment for gender dysphoria in children don’t seem to care.
Florida will always put data over ideology. https://t.co/lpHiTq6sL4
— Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD (@FLSurgeonGen) July 27, 2022
Valiant News previously reported that Assistant Secretary for Health Dr Rachel Levine, who is male-to-female transgender, argued that “gender-affirming care,” is not only “life-saving,” but “medically necessary,” and that Democrats must “empower” minors to get the experimental treatments.
