Current Events > Florida Gov to ban transition care for transgender youths, Medicaid recipients

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/desantis-moves-ban-transition-care-transgender-youth-medicaid-recipien-rcna31736

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis administration Thursday asked the state board regulating doctors to essentially ban transition-related care for transgender minors, according to a letter obtained by NBC News. The state Health Department made the request hours after another state agency issued a 46-page report to justify banning Medicaid coverage for transgender people of any age who want puberty blockers, hormone therapies or gender-assignment surgery. The two-pronged effort, which ensures DeSantis can act quickly and without the need for legislative approval, drew instant opposition from activists and medical professionals. They have increasingly clashed with DeSantis, a Republican, as he seeks re-election and builds a national brand as a culture warrior and potential 2024 White House contender. Leading the charge for DeSantis: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, who oversees the Health Department. In April, Ladapo issued guidance recommending against transgender treatments for minors who feel their bodies and their gender identities are misaligned. It contradicted guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden, and transgender rights activists and 300 state health care professionals accused Florida of cherry-picking evidence and performing incomplete research.

In a partial answer to the criticisms, Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration issued its report Thursday questioning the science and safety of hormone therapies, puberty blockers and gender-assignment surgery. Ladapo then asked the Florida Board of Medicine to establish a standard of care Thursday that could ultimately result in prohibiting doctors from prescribing the therapies for transgender youths. The process could take months, and its unclear how many people it could affect. While some professional organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society, recommend these treatments for gender affirming care, the scientific evidence supporting these complex medical interventions is extraordinarily weak, Ladapo wrote in his letter. The current standards set by numerous professional organizations appear to follow a preferred political ideology instead of the highest level of generally accepted medical science, he wrote. Florida must do more to protect children from politics-based medicine. But a host of other health care professionals, their organizations and activists have accused Ladapo and DeSantis of endangering the well-being of children who are at increased risk of suicide already. Its unconstitutional for the government to step in and deprive youth and especially trans youth of getting the necessary medical care they need, said Gary Howell, a psychologist in Tampa who has transgender youth and adult patients. This interferes with the rights of parents, Howell said, drawing attention to DeSantis crusade for parental rights when it comes to teaching kids about race, gender identity and sexual orientation in the classroom.

The fed just needs to block any medicade/medicare reimbursement to states that do this.

Lebronwon posted...

Florida must do more to protect children from politics-based medicine.

Yikes. That is what the GOP thinks transition care for trans people are these days. Dont see how they win in the midterms with this kind of thinking, their abortion views, or their gun control views.

Evil

Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration, or FAHCA.

Transphobes are utter scum

Just insanely cruel, and contrary to all medical evidence.
And a model for red states everywhere, no doubt.

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Theyre trying it here now, too. (Aus)

Because politically, Australia is the USs dim, overenthusiastic cousin with a real hero worship thing going on.

Leading up to the election two weeks ago, the Liberal party had a candidate they knew wouldnt win, but who was spouting the most vile, despicable anti-trans and homophobic shit. They knew she wouldnt win, but they were hoping theyd gain more votes overall than they lost in losing that electorate. She was also hand-picked by the then-current (but now deposed) prime minister.

The former prime minister was rolled, and the first thing the new leader of the opposition starts doing is gunning for teachers because he thinks theyre all unionists and teach identity politics.

I wish DeSantis was transalive.