gender dysphoria

During his State of the State address, Gov. Ron DeSantis recognized a woman who had a double mastectomy when she was 16 and started taking puberty blockers at 13: "She's now an advocate against these kinds of procedures for children."

Florida's medical boards moved forward with rules that would prevent doctors from providing such treatments to children. The bills would go further by placing a prohibition in state law.

Florida's medical boards have voted to ban gender-affirming care for youths. Families with trans children and medical providers who care for them are worried about the impact.

Florida's medical boards refused to scrap a transgender treatment ban for minors, and the osteopathic panel removed an exception for clinical research trials at the request of the health department.

The Florida High School Athletic Association's board of directors has voted to remove questions about athletes' menstrual history from a required health form for participation in school sports.

A group of students are organizing a walkout at the end of the month that will include other state public and private colleges and universities and high schools.

The judge initially rejected a request to have a South Carolina psychiatrist perform the evaluations but gave the state another chance to show how findings from exams would affect “the controlling substantive issue of whether treatments at issue are experimental.”

The Agency for Health Care Administration, which largely oversees the Medicaid program, is using the money for legal and expert-witness fees in its push to ban Medicaid coverage for transgender treatments.

AHCA asked for “mental examinations” on a pair of 12-year-olds who are plaintiffs in a challenge to a state rule prohibiting Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care.

His administration is requiring state universities to provide information from the past five years about services they have provided to people with gender dysphoria.