TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine’s associated gathering voted 6-3 to prohibition gender-affirming attraction for minors successful the state.
The ballot among committee members came a week aft a rules store was held to research ways to enactment limits connected gender-affirming attraction for those nether 18, and comments from the public.
The draught regularisation was called “Practice Standards for the Treatment of Gender Dysphoria.” A erstwhile meeting, held connected Oct. 28, had committee members sermon attraction rules and regulations for Florida doctors to supply gender-affirming care. They besides provided opportunities to the nationalist to explicit enactment oregon interest astir the proposals, and perceive from assorted taxable substance experts.
Previous guidance released by the Florida Department of Health successful April stated:
- Social sex modulation should not beryllium a attraction enactment for children oregon adolescents.
- Anyone nether 18 should not beryllium prescribed puberty blockers oregon hormone therapy.
- Gender reassignment country should not beryllium a attraction enactment for children oregon adolescents.
- Children and adolescents should beryllium provided societal enactment by peers and household and question counseling from a licensed provider.
The guidance released by FDOH said, “Based connected the presently disposable evidence, “encouraging mastectomy, ovariectomy, uterine extirpation, penile disablement, tracheal shave, the medicine of hormones which are retired of enactment with the familial make-up of the child, oregon puberty blockers, are each objective practices which tally an unacceptably precocious hazard of doing harm.”
In August, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration banned the use of Medicaid funding for sex dysphoria treatments and different gender-affirming care.
Now, nether the caller rules approved astatine the associated committee gathering of the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine, doctors successful Florida volition beryllium incapable to supply prescriptions for puberty-blocking medications oregon hormone therapy, nor execute enactment reassignment surgeries connected insignificant patients.
According to 1 of the caller rules, “64B15-12.014,” the surgical regularisation besides applies to “surgical procedures that change superior oregon secondary intersexual characteristics.”
The now-approved regularisation includes an objection for children successful Florida already receiving the therapies, but blocked caller patients from opening gender-affirming attraction of this nature, speech from those enrolled successful objective studies.
The adjacent measurement volition beryllium a 21-day nationalist remark play earlier the rules instrumentality effect, according to the nationalist publication published connected the taxable by the Department of Health.
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