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The bill, among other things, would make it a felony for health care professionals to order puberty blockers, hormone treatment or surgery for minors.
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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."
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Transgender youth and the health workers who treat them were already concerned about restrictions state medical boards prepare to implement. Now there are more threats to access.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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State medical boards will host a joint public hearing on Feb. 10 in Tallahassee. Teens and their families seeking transgender care say they are confused and anxious about proposed restrictions.
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There are procedural steps two state medical boards have to complete before the rules are finalized. But there have already been reports of disruptions to care, and some families say the stress is traumatizing.