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Florida medical board BANS puberty blockers for minors under the age of 18 — after hearing testimony from 'de-transitioners'
By MANSUR SHAHEEN DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:52 EDT, 28 October 2022
The Florida Board of Medicine has voted to ban 'gender affirming care' for transgender teenagers in the state.
The move will block access to puberty blockers and hormone therapies to minors in order to treat gender dysphoria. Those receiving the drugs for other reasons will be exempt from this decision.
Board members said the decision was made based on the irreversibility of the drugs and the growing number of people choosing to 'detransition'.
It will apply to all teens in the state, even those that are currently undergoing treatment using the drugs.
Arizona has similar restrictions in place already. Alabama, Arkansas and Texas have attempted to enact similar rules but have been held up by the courts.
Dr Joseph Ladapo, the state's surgeon general, requested for the board to establish a standard for care for trans teens earlier this year.
Under Gov Ron DeSantis, Florida has been at the forefront of the trans debate in the US in recent months.
In August, the board voted to adopt an official 'standard of care' in the state that opposes the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapies for trans teens.
The decision made Friday will now be passed on to the full medical board, who are likely to adopt the recommendations.
According to a report released earlier this year by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 1.34 per cent of the state's teens aged 13 to 17 years old are trans.
A detransitioner at the Florida hearing said that she is happy that she did not receive surgery and that her gender affirming care led to her developing PTSD, OCD and a suicide attempt
Commenters at the meeting included detransitioners
Advocates for the ban on trans care testified during the meeting, and included detransitioners.
One woman explained that she was diagnosed with PTSD, OCD and even attempted suicide while using testosterone while she was living as a transman.
Since detransitioning, she said her mental health has improved but she still has a disrupted menstrual cycle and other after-effects.
'I'm truly grateful I never got surgery because I'm happily married and 28 weeks pregnant,' one woman said. 'But if I had gotten surgeries that I so desperately wanted as a teenager, that would've stolen this future from me.'
Some have warned that even though a person can detransition, the impact the drugs will have on their hormones will last forever.
Dr Joseph Ladapo (pictured) asked for the medical board to weigh in on the trans issues over summer,
setting up Friday's decision
'The scientific evidence supporting these complex medical interventions is extraordinarily weak,' Dr Ladapo wrote in a June letter.
'...there is great uncertainty about the effects of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries in young people with gender dysphoria.
'The current standards set by numerous professional organizations appear to follow a preferred political ideology instead of the highest level of generally accepted medical science.
'Florida must do more to protect children from politics-based medicine. Otherwise, children and adolescents in our state will continue to face a substantial risk of long-term harm.'
Transgender child rapist kept in isolation at men’s jail as
‘too dangerous’ for women’s prison
Michael Hamilton, The Sun
23:43, 29 Oct 2022
A TRANSGENDER child rapist is being kept segregated at a men’s jail — because she is too dangerous for a women’s nick.
Prison chiefs have decided that paedophile Marcia Walker, 48, would pose a risk if she were switched from top security Frankland jail.
Lags at the Co Durham prison are “furious” as they have to be kept in cells for 45 minutes while Walker washes and eats alone.
Walker — once Mark Walker — was jailed for 13 years in 2003 for raping two girls, one aged four, and has served time for bomb hoaxes and assault.
A source said: “There is a lot of anger at the jail but it’s a Catch-22 situation.
“She has to be treated as a woman but cannot be moved to a female prison because she poses a risk.
“And, as she’s legally a woman, she must be kept apart from male inmates.”
Ministry of Justice sources say more than 90 per cent of transgender cons are held in men’s prisons.
The Prison Service said: “Transgender prisoners do not receive special treatment and have access to the same facilities as male prisoners.”
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