The measure, which will take effect after a three-week period for public comment, will prevent doctors in the southern state from performing sex-reassignment surgeries on minors or prescribing them drugs, including puberty blockers, as part of a course of gender transition, the New York Times reported.
The board of medicine's 14 members were appointed by Republican state Governor Ron DeSantis, who in March signed a law prohibiting the discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in elementary school classrooms.Nikole Parker, the group's director of transgender equality, said in a statement: DeSantis, a darling of right-wing Republicans who is seeking re-election and is also believed to harbor presidential ambitions, has spent months criticizing gender transition treatments for adolescents.
In August, his administration banned funding for gender transition treatment through Medicaid, a major US government public health program for low-income people.
Maybe they should also prevent doctors from doing all unnecessary medical proceedures until 18 including circumcision?
Well Done!
Crazy that minors were allowed to do an irreversible procedure in the first place
About bloody time how ridiculous to abuse kids
Well done Florida. At least one stay did protecting children from these monsters.
Good decision
Good move. Let the kids grow and decide for themselves instead of being brainwashed by adults with agendas.
Cruelty is the point.
That is a good law basically that person must pay for their own, what is there to protest about.
Agree on the surgeries but they should be allowed puberty blockers