Florida Board of Medicine Votes to Ban Transgender Treatments for Minors - ‘A Giant Experiment On Children’

The Florida Board of Medicine voted Aug. 5 to begin the rule-making process to ban transgender treatments for minors. If the proposed rule is adopted, it would prohibit doctors from performing gender transition surgeries and prescribing puberty blockers for those under 18 diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has long been critical of transgender treatments for minors.

“They are actually giving very young girls double mastectomies, they want to castrate these young boys,” he said during an Aug. 3 press conference. “That’s wrong, and so we’ve stood up and said both from the health and children well-being perspective, you don’t disfigure 10-, 12-, 13-year-old kids based on gender dysphoria.”
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“Once they are adults they can do what they want. But minors simply do not have the mental capacity to make these life-altering decisions. Parents cannot allow a child to smoke or drink or drive a car at the age of 3,” said Anthony Verdugo, Christian Family Coalition Florida
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(From the age of 13 to 16) Chloe Cole took testosterone, puberty-blocking drugs (and) had a double mastectomy. She has since decided to reverse course and admits, “[Transitioning] is not the path that I should have taken. No child should have to experience what I have ”

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