Florida’s boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine on Friday voted to prohibit certain therapies and medical procedures typically used as so-called treatments of gender dysphoria.
The two boards met in Orlando for a joint public meeting where each voted on the same rules related to minors, banning sex reassignment surgeries or any other surgical procedures that alter primary or secondary sexual characteristics.
The rules also ban puberty blockers, as well as hormone and hormone antagonist therapies. Opponents of such treatments characterize them as life-altering and say they can lead to sterilization.
Nonsurgical treatments for gender dysphoria in minors may continue under the auspices of investigator-initiated clinical trials approved by the Institutional Review Board and conducted at certain Florida medical schools….