in Florida during a debate in October. However this restriction is the first of its kind to circumvent the state House, where the ban was denied twice. All 14 members of the state medical board were appointed by DeSantis.
“It’s very disheartening,” pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Brittany Bruggeman told BuzzFeed News. “They’re going against medical guidelines, and interpreting evidence differently than any other major medical association.”Bruggeman treats transgender patients at the University of Florida’s youth gender program, where she said the average age of patients is around 17 years old.
National medical organizations like the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics have“Transgender children, like all children, have the best chance to thrive when they are supported and can obtain the health care they need,” the American Medical Association wrote in a statement after Arkansas instituted a state ban to gender affirmation care in 2021.
WE want an article about hormones after menstruations! 😛
The people celebrating this don’t seem to realize that there is going to be a huge increase in teen suicide because of this. This is heart breaking.
Excellent! Best news of the day!
Obviously political as the AMA and the Academy of Pediatrics do not agree with this ban
Wow
Good!
The board is an object lesson on how authoritarianism manipulated truth.
🤟🙋♀️ hellyeah