Miami’s NBC News affiliate reports:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration Thursday asked the state board regulating doctors to essentially ban transition-related care for transgender minors, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.
The state Health Department made the request hours after another state agency issued a 46-page report to justify banning Medicaid coverage for transgender people of any age who want puberty blockers, hormone therapies or gender-assignment surgery.
The two-pronged effort, which ensures DeSantis can act quickly and without the need for legislative approval, drew instant opposition from activists and medical professionals.
Axios reports:
State surgeon general Joseph Ladapo asked the state board regulating doctors to essentially ban transition-related care for transgender minors.
Gender-affirming care is standard, accepted medical treatment and has been for years, endorsed by all the major medical organizations including the American Medical Association and American Psychiatric Association.
Last month, the Florida Department of Health advised doctors to ignore federal guidance and stop assisting children and teens with gender transitions. Ending care and coverage for trans people in Florida would likely violate the Affordable Care Act’s discrimination protections.
Ladapo, you will recall, is affiliated with loony tune QAnon anti-vax leader Dr. Demon Semen.
Last month, the Florida Department of Health advised doctors to ignore federal guidance and stop assisting children and teens with gender transitions.
Ending care and coverage for trans people in Florida would likely violate the Affordable Care Act’s discrimination protections.
Will anyone in this admin at the appropriate department go after them tho?
Florida is becoming like Nazi Germany in the 1930s. I find it difficult to believe that most of the residents are calmly sitting there while losing freedoms and rights to everything.
When are they going to ban treatment for people who got cancer from demon semen? I don’t like paying for people what lay with demons.
As I keep saying, everything DeSantis does is to rile up his masses of idiots and bigots. He wants them to come out and vote for him this election.
The Republican Party version of “freedom” is the Southern pre-Civil War version of freedom. Florida makes this clear. That is, it is freedom for white heterosexual men and enslavement of blacks, subjugation of women and driving homosexuals underground.
Joann Prinzivalli • 3 hours ago
What these states like Florida are doing, as to their state’s trans population, is an attempt to create such a hostile and oppressive environment so as to cause that population and families, to flee the state for states with more civilized laws, if they can.
The KKK and segregation laws once created an environment in which those African-Americans who could manage to pull up their roots, migrated to states in the North, where they were ‘welcomed’ by racial restrictive covenants, sundown towns, redlining, and zoning of the redlined neighborhoods to allow pollution and toxic businesses in their areas – the “Great Migration.”
See: https://www.archives.gov/re…
At least, for the trans people and families who are able to uproot and move, the more civilized states have laws that protect them.
If they weren’t so cheap about it, DeSantis, Abbott, Ivey, and all the others in states that are systematically doing this, would be offering one way bus tickets to the civilized states for their undesirable “subhuman” trans population. That would be better than herding us into reparative therapy camps to maximize the torture.
I’m amazed at how much DeSantis can get done to destroy people, while Biden, as PRESIDENT, has his hands tied. I’m not criticizing Biden or Dems, just the US system.
For $437,000 a year ($198,000 more than his predecessor) Ladapo will say anything Ron DeSantis wants him to say.
Withholding of health care is being used a weapon to oppress and control others – women of child-bearing age and transgender people. I wonder if Republicans will try to find a way to withhold health care, including emergency services, from undocumented immigrants. Who’s next?
KarenAtFOH Nychta • 4 hours ago
And this will do nothing to stop trans people from being trans. It will only increase their suffering.
Next will be a declaration like Texas that accuses trans parents of being child abusers.
..and notice how these states are doing all they can —without legislative approval —
and yet complain LOUDLY! about “government overreach” in blue / purple states
AyJayDee • 5 hours ago • edited
They’re going after trans people because they’re an easy target – a community that is small, barely visible and mostly powerless. It’s a step toward coming after the rest of us.
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