The Florida Medical Board has agreed to postpone discussions on creating state-specific guidelines for providing gender-affirming care to transgender people suffering from gender dysphoria.
florida member medical committee When Osteopathic Medical Board The Joint Regulations/Legislation Committee on Thursday delay the discussion After a public rally in Tallahassee on September 30 was canceled due to Hurricane Ian.
The board will not develop rule text without the benefit of public hearings and is looking to reschedule a four-hour public meeting for late October or early November, sources told Florida Politics.
The delay means the medical board won’t start crafting state-specific rules before the general election. In fact, the board may not be able to delve into rulemaking until sometime in December or next year.
The term “transgender” refers to people whose sex assigned at birth does not match the way they identify. American Psychiatric Association. Gender dysphoria refers to the psychological distress that results from a mismatch between the sex assigned at birth and one’s own gender identity. And while gender identity disorder often begins in childhood, some people don’t experience it until after puberty or much later, the psychiatric association argues.
Members of the Medical Board and the Osteopathic Medical Board agreed in August to develop Florida guidelines for the treatment of gender dysphoria.The board had not previously explored the issue, but agreed to do so after the Surgeon General Joseph Radapo asked them to work on it.
Radapo called on the commission to ban patients under the age of 18 from undergoing sex reassignment surgery or puberty-suppressing hormone therapy. Radapo also hopes that the board will change the standard of care rule to require older patients seeking gender-confirming treatment to sign a consent form and wait 24 hours before initiating such treatment. I was there.
government Ron DeSantis‘ management It already prohibits Medicaid from reimbursing for gender-affirming medical care, regardless of age. This ban is being challenged in federal court.
of health administration The Housing Medicaid Program (AHCA) provided Florida Politics with data showing that 12 children and 13 adults had Medicaid-reimbursed surgical procedures in the 2021-22 fiscal year. The most common surgery for both children and adults is simple mastectomy, and between 1 July 2021 and 30 June 2022, 3 children and 6 adults underwent this surgery.
Medicaid does not provide benefits to children without parental consent. Children are defined as beneficiaries under the age of 21. In other words, the Children category contains information about her 18, 19, or 20 beneficiaries.
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