Post by fearnot on Aug 15, 2022 16:24:11 GMT -5
Florida Board of Medicine Moves to Ban Transgender Treatments for Minors
whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble,
it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck,
and to be drowned in the depth of the sea
Matthew 18:6
The Florida Board of Medicine voted on Aug. 5
to advance a plan that would ban doctors
from providing gender-affirming treatments
such as hormone therapy
and puberty blockers
to youth under the age of 18.
A pediatric endocrinologist,
Dr. Quentin Van Meter served as an expert for the state
and warned the board that a growing number of children
are seeking these treatments of gender reassignment.
“This is a giant experiment on United States children,
” Van Meter warned the board.
Speaking to the board, Van Meter said that
Sweden,
Finland,
and the United Kingdom
have “halted treatment” for transgender youths.
They found that there was far more harm
than any benefit
in allowing these children to receive any kind of medical intervention,”
Van Meter said.
“There are approximately 127,000 children throughout the U.S.
that are receiving gender-affirming treatment.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said that children who are “prematurely” allowed to pursue
[gender affirming] treatments can have “harmful lasting effects”
and has called for medical professionals who perform
gender reassignment surgeries on minors
to face lawsuits.
“They talk about these very young kids getting gender-affirming care,” DeSantis said
at a press briefing on Aug. 3.
“What they don’t tell you what that is,
is that they are giving very young girls double mastectomies;
they want to castrate these young boys.
That’s wrong.”
“You don’t disfigure 10-, 12-, 13-year-old kids based on gender dysphoria,” DeSantis continued.
“Eighty percent of it resolves anyways by the time they get older.
So why would you be doing this?
I think these doctors need to get sued for what’s happening,
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