Doctors who provided gender reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers to minors dealing with gender dysphoria should be sued, said Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. .In a recent presser, DeSantis said "gender affirming care" in youth involves "giving very young girls double mastectomies" and castration for boys. . Florida Governor Ron DeSantisFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a presser ."That's wrong," he said.."And so, we've stood up and said, both from the health and children well-being perspective, you don't disfigure 10, 12, 13-year-old kids based on gender dysphoria." .Without citing his source, DeSantis added 80% of children typically grow out of gender dysphoria as they get older. ."I think these doctors need to get sued for what's happening," said DeSantis to a round of applause from the audience. .Florida's Voice News — an independent news outlet that prides itself on "reporting the facts mainstream media ignores" — on Wednesday published an article about the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) supporting double mastectomies for children..The article slammed what the AAP called "gender-affirming care" ahead of a Friday meeting where the Florida Board of Medicine (FBOM) will consider a proposal to prohibit physicians from providing such treatments to youth. ."Minors should not be having this type of stuff performed on them," said DeSantis — a long-time critic of surgeries like double mastectomies and castration for boy to treat gender dysphoria in minors. .Jeremy Redfern, the press secretary for the Florida Department of Health (DOH), criticized the AAP's Florida chapter for supporting sex-reassignment surgeries and administering puberty blockers to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria. .Redfern took to Twitter to lash out at Dr. Lisa Gwynn, Florida's AAP president, based on a statement Gwynn released which was included in the tweet. ."This is the last step in a series of efforts to block transgender youth from receiving appropriate, evidence-based medical care..." said Gwynn in her statement. .Redfern, in his tweet, pointed out Gwynn "never calls it what it is." ."This is eminence-based ideology. It's not evidence-based medicine. Regardless of what she claims," said Redfern. .Gwynn, in her statement, called on people to write to the FBOM in opposition to any proposed policy that will "limit or prohibit access to potentially lifesaving medical care for transgender youth." .Florida's DOH — in its guidance against helping transition minors — said the procedures present an "unacceptably high risk of doing harm." .“…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 said.
