Florida Agencies Manipulated Research To Ban Trans Care And Coverage

[Nevilledog]

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/florida-agencies-manipulated-research

On August 11th, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration banned gender affirming care coverage from Medicaid. Meanwhile, the board of medicine proceeded to ban gender affirming care for transgender youth. To do this, they relied on a newly created “Standards of Care” for the treatment of gender dysphoria that was rife with errors and omissions. Now, new court filings show that the Florida Surgeon General’s Office and the Agency for Health Care Administration purposefully manipulated this research to justify banning gender affirming care, including a flow chart produced before the “research” was commissioned with the explicit end goal of “care effectively banned.” Worse, they utilized a consultant from a religious conversion therapy organization to do so.

The newly minted Florida “Generally Accepted Professional Medical Standards Determination on the Treatment of Gender Dysphoria” were released in June 2022, and within a month, Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration banned gender affirming care coverage. Florida’s board of medicine relied on it heavily in their ban on gender affirming care for transgender youth as well. The document, which claims that “gender affirming care” is experimental and does not meet medical guidelines, was immediately slammed by scientific and medical organizations and experts.

A Yale Review scathingly criticized the report, stating, “We are alarmed that Florida’s health care agency has adopted a purportedly scientific report that so blatantly violates the basic tenets of scientific inquiry… So repeated and fundamental are the errors in the June 2 Report that it seems clear that the report is not a serious scientific analysis but, rather, a document crafted to serve a political agenda.”

Now, we have direct evidence that this was the case. In a lawsuit aiming to reverse Florida's Medicaid ban, the discovery process unearthed documents from the Florida Surgeon General’s Office. These papers reveal the unambiguous objective of the research: to arrive at an outcome where "care is effectively banned." See this flowchart obtained in discovery documents:



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[Mad_Machine76]

1. I mean

of course they did.


They manipulated COVID data too.

[RKP5637]

2. Not surprised by anything. Florida is a sleazy place! n/t

[Biophilic]

4. No, Florida is not a sleazy place, but there sure are some extra sleazy republicans here.

We’re working on push them out. Patience is required as we seem to have started pretty far behind the starting line. But as the article shows we are still fighting. We haven’t given up.

[RKP5637]

6. Excellent!!! Good to hear!!!

[Biophilic]

7. Keep rooting for us, it's going to be an uphill battle for a few years. Certainly past 2024.

I lived in Michigan through horrible republican governors. We kept trying and finally we elected Big Gretch.

[RKP5637]

8. She is so wonderful!!!!!

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Shithole.

[Torchlight]

5. Lysenkoism.

The manipulation/distortion of scientific data/facts for a political purpose. Beginning to think DeSantis would assert the moon is cheese if it strokes his ego.

[Initech]

9. Exactly what the Nazis did.

Manipulate research data to support your sick and twisted world views.

[Nevilledog]

10. Especially when you realize all these bans and hatred apply to 1500 minors in the whole US

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Every trans kid is important but shows what a targeted moral panic this is -- there are far more small kids working in factories right now, on a Monday night, than get puberty blockers in a whole year.

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The conversation about puberty blockers as a part of gender affirming care is particularly divorced from reality. These numbers are for the entire United States, where 50.7 million people are 6-17 years old. https://reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/
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5:34 PM · May 15, 2023

[Initech]

11. Yeah that's insane. The Christian right has really gone off the deep end with this one.

I'm still pissed at Fox News, Twitter, and Tucker Carlson for giving that Libsoftiktok terrorist a platform and millions of followers to spew her lies, bile and hatred. I'm convinced that's where this shit really escalated.

[Nevilledog]

12. I think it was actually started by Chris Rufo. He's evil incarnate.