{"id":8884,"date":"2022-09-17T18:17:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T18:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2022-09-17T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T18:17:53","slug":"florida-medical-board-moves-to-block-gender-affirming-treatments-for-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8884","title":{"rendered":"Florida medical board moves to block gender affirming treatments for minors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Florida\u2019s medical board on Friday voted to begin the process of banning gender-affirming medical treatment for youths, a move that comes as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has become increasingly vocal in his opposition to such therapies.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The board also voted to start that process for requiring adults seeking such care to wait 24 hours before going forward with any medical procedures.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association support gender-affirming care for adults and adolescents. But medical experts said gender-affirming care for children rarely, if ever, includes surgery. Instead, doctors are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-nightly\/2022\/03\/25\/the-transgender-care-that-states-are-banning-explained-00020580\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more likely<\/a>&nbsp;to recommend counseling, social transitioning and hormone replacement therapy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed rule is the latest step taken by the DeSantis administration to tighten regulatory controls over gender-affirming care. Florida\u2019s Medicaid regulator is also considering a rule that would block state-subsidized health care from paying for treatments of transgender people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/05\/florida-gender-affirming-medical-treatment-ban-00050174\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/05\/florida-gender-affirming-medical-treatment-ban-00050174<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Florida\u2019s medical board on Friday voted to begin the process of banning gender-affirming medical treatment for youths, a move that comes as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has become increasingly vocal in his opposition to such therapies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The board also voted to start that process for requiring adults seeking such care to wait 24 hours before going forward with any medical procedures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association support gender-affirming care for adults and adolescents. But medical experts said gender-affirming care for children rarely, if ever, includes surgery. Instead, doctors are more likely to recommend counseling, social transitioning and hormone replacement therapy.<br \/>\nThe proposed rule is the latest step taken by the DeSantis administration to tighten regulatory controls over gender-affirming care. Florida\u2019s Medicaid regulator is also considering a rule that would block state-subsidized health care from paying for treatments of transgender people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1281,471,421,1469,653,73,50,1729,403],"class_list":["post-8884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-desantis","tag-florida","tag-gender","tag-government-intervention","tag-governors","tag-healthcare","tag-medical","tag-minors","tag-trans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8885,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}