Florida is fighting back against Clown World at every single level.
This time, it's the Department of Health in Florida that is waging war against the gender revolution by taking the actually sane stance of saying it's not cool to trans the kids.
From The Post Millennial:
On Wednesday, the Florida Department of Health released guidance on treating children and adolescents with gender dysphoria, noting a number of treatment courses that would not be recommended, specifically those called "affirming care."
The guidance comes in response to to a guidance titled "Gender-Affirming Care and Young People" released last month by the US Department of Health and Human Services highlighting different "gender-affirming care" treatments that can be used on children and adolescents, including social affirmation, puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and gender-affirming surgeries.
The Biden admin recommends that doctors "affirm" transgender youth, meaning giving drugs and surgery to kids in an effort to do the impossible and change their sex.
So Florida has just decided that, as a state, they would recommend the opposite.
Here's the guidance letter:
Remember, it's now considered radical if you DON'T want to chop off kids private parts or give them drugs to delay their puberty.
This is the world we live in.
Except for Florida.
The Florida DoH said in its guidance that it wants to "clarify evidence" that was cited within the US DHHS guidance, noting that "Systematic reviews on hormonal treatment for young people show a trend of low-quality evidence, small sample sizes, and medium to high risk of bias."
The Florida guidance states: "A paper published in the International Review of Psychiatry states that 80 percent of those seeking clinical care will lose their desire to identify with the nonbirth sex. One review concludes that 'hormonal treatments for transgender adolescents can achieve their intended physical effects, but evidence regarding their psychosocial and cognitive impact is generally lacking.'"
Citing the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, the guidance states: "gender dysphoria is characterized by a strong, persistent crossgender identification associated with anxiety, depression, irritability, and often a wish to live as a gender different from the one associated with the sex assigned at birth."
The guidance concludes that "Due to the lack of conclusive evidence, and the potential for long-term, irreversible effects" social gender transition and gender reassignment surgery should not be a treatment option for children and adolescents, and that children and teens should not be prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy.
"Children and adolescents should be provided social support by peers and family and seek counseling from a licensed provider," the guidance states.
The policy handed down from the feds was based on a misunderstanding of studies and cherry-picking of data to confirm their political beliefs. But Florida's DoH corrects the record.
"Based on the currently available evidence, 'encouraging mastectomy, ovariectomy, uterine extirpation, penile disablement, tracheal shave, the prescription of hormones which are out of line with the genetic make-up of the child, or puberty blockers, are all clinical practices which run an unacceptably high risk of doing harm,'" the guidance states.
It adds that children and adolescents with gender dysphoria should seek counseling from a licensed provider, and be given social support by peers and family members.
The guidance notes that its recommendations "do not apply to procedures or treatments for children or adolescents born with a genetically or biochemically verifiable disorder of sex development (DSD)."
The Florida DoH states that its guidelines are consistent with those set forth by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which states that those seeking surgery for hormones for gender dysphoria must be at least 18 years of age for coverage by the insurance.
Florida also noted that the guidelines are in line with reviews, recommendations, and guidance from countries around the world, including France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Finland.
Florida is going outside of the United States for European studies and guidance.
Likely because you are actually allowed to study these sorts of things in other countries without being silenced, unlike in the US.
As Jesse Singal recently exposed, studies in the United States are hopelessly polluted by this woke ideology:
Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, who is a straight boss, had this to say:
"The federal government's medical establishment releasing guidance failing at the most basic level of academic rigor shows that this was never about health care," said Ladapo in a statement, according to Fox 4. "It was about injecting political ideology into the health of our children. Children experiencing gender dysphoria should be supported by family and seek counseling, not pushed into an irreversible decision before they reach 18."
Thank the Lord for Governor DeSantis, his appointments, and conservatives with a backbone in Florida.
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