Florida medical board votes to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors

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https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/florida-medical-board-votes-ban-gender-affirming-care-transgender-mino-rcna54632

Florida medical board votes to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors

The Florida Board of Medicine voted to start drafting a rule that will ban puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries for trans youths under 18.

Oct. 29, 2022, 10:28 AM EDT
By Jo Yurcaba

After five hours of tense testimony and protests, the Florida Board of Medicine voted Friday to start drafting a rule that would bar all minors in the state from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgeries as treatment for gender dysphoria.

Florida’s medical board is the first in the country to pursue such a rule, but Florida is among a wave of states where officials have attempted to restrict gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors.

By the end of Friday’s five-hour meeting, protesters began yelling “Shame!” at the board members, and some of them staged a “die-in” in the lobby of the Orlando International Airport, where the meeting was held.

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Come to "FREE" Florida....

Where the FREEDOM to BAN...

discussing LGBTQ issues
parents from medical treatment for their trans children
reading diverse books
wearing masks to keep COVID from spreading
and just about everything else connected to Civil and Constitutional Rights are concerned.

[CrispyQ]

2. A medical board banning care for young patients.

Their cruelty is stunning.






GOTV

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Shithole medical board.

Ignoring recommendations from virtually all of the relevant medical organizations and pandering to politics. Cowards, unfit to regulate ANYTHING. Unfit to defend the public.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Florida is joining Texas is targeting Trans children for political purposes

Paxton and Abbott are attacking and threatening trans children for political points

Link to tweet

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/11/texas-transgender-politics/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton are turning the law-and-order Republican Party into a gang of bullies, targeting transgender kids — and the parents who support them — with their decision to treat gender-affirming health care as child abuse.

That health care is legal under Texas law, but this is election season. Cynics who think politicians will say anything to get reelected have a new, sparkling piece of evidence......

But most of those aren’t sexy election issues. Paxton is in a runoff. Abbott faces a well-known, well-financed Democrat in November. And as The Texas Tribune’s Patrick Svitek has reported, they think they’ve got a hot item to entice Republican voters.

“This is a winning issue,” Abbott’s top political strategist, Dave Carney, told reporters last week. “Texans have common sense.”....

“How is that considered child abuse to accept them and love them?” one mother told them. “How can they overstep their power and try to come and tell me how I should love my child?”