But state legislatures keep passing hate legislation and I feel that their lies needs to be brought to light, Florida did it again!
Florida health department issues new, controversial guidance on care for transgender children
WPLG Ch10
By Glenna Milberg
April 20, 2022
Florida’s Department of Health issued controversial guidelines on Wednesday when it comes to the care of transgender children.It defies federal guidance and LGBTQ+ youth say the state has it all wrong.
The page of guidance from Florida’s health department has links and citations.
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo refutes and opposes the recent federal guidelines about gender-affirming care for young people, like social affirmations of physical changes and hormone therapies, for what he and Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration calls “political ideology.”
Those working for transgender equality accuse Florida’s health department of the same.
“Science isn’t just providing data but providing interpretation of data,” said D Ojeda with the National Center for Transgender Equality. “There’s a lot of biases that comes with designing research projects.”
This latest clash in health policy comes over gender dysphoria, which is defined as clinically significant distress that a person may feel when sex or gender assigned at birth is not the same as their identity.
So what did Florida’s Department of Health release? Here it is in full.
Treatment of Gender Dysphoria for Children and Adolescents
April 20, 2022
The Florida Department of Health wants to clarify evidence recently cited on a fact sheet released by the US Department of Health and Human Services and provide guidance on treating gender dysphoria for children and adolescents.
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. A paper published in the International Review of Psychiatry states that 80% 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."
According to the Merck Manual, “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.”
Due to the lack of conclusive evidence, and the potential for long-term, irreversible effects, the Department's guidelines are as follows:
- Social gender transition should not be a treatment option for children or adolescents.
- Anyone under 18 should not be prescribed puberty blockers or hormone therapy.
- Gender reassignment surgery should not be a treatment option for children or adolescents.
- 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."
- Children and adolescents should be provided social support by peers and family and seek counseling from a licensed provider.
These guidelines do not apply to procedures or treatments for children or adolescents born with a genetically or biochemically verifiable disorder of sex development (DSD). These disorders include, but are not limited to, 46, XX DSD; 46, XY DSD; sex chromosome DSDs; XX or XY sex reversal; and ovotesticular disorder.
The Department’s guidelines are consistent with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services age requirement for surgical and non-surgical treatment. These guidelines are also in line with the guidance, reviews, and recommendations from Sweden, Finland, the United Kingdom, and France.
Parents are encouraged to reach out to their child’s health care provider for more information.
How does the saying go? "Figures don't lie, but liars figure" well politicians do lie and have no problems about lying.
This is a politician hatchet job on us disguised as medical facts. This is an article debunking the research that Florida’s Department of Health cited.
A critical commentary on follow-up studies and “desistance” theories about transgender and gender-nonconforming children
International Journal of Transgenderism, Volume 19, Issue 2 (2018
By Julia Temple Newhook,Jake Pyne,Kelley Winters,Stephen Feder,Cindy Holmes,Jemma Tosh,Mari-Lynne Sinnott,Ally Jamieson &Sarah Pickett
Background: It has been widely suggested that over 80% of transgender children will come to identify as cisgender (i.e., desist) as they mature, with the assumption that for this 80%, the trans identity was a temporary “phase.” This statistic is used as the scientific rationale for discouraging social transition for pre-pubertal children. This article is a critical commentary on the limitations of this research and a caution against using these studies to develop care recommendations for gender-nonconforming children.[…]
Conclusion: The tethering of childhood gender diversity to the framework of “desistance” or “persistence” has stifled advancements in our understanding of children's gender in all its complexity. These follow-up studies fall short in helping us understand what children need. As work begins on the 8th version of the Standards of Care by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, we call for a more inclusive conceptual framework that takes children's voices seriously. Listening to children's experiences will enable a more comprehensive understanding of the needs of gender-nonconforming children and provide guidance to scientific and lay communities.
The politicians and Florida health office conveniently ignored that the 80% figure has been debunked in the very research paper that they quote. The research paper said that those children who dropped of the study was counted toward those who detransitioned and also many them in the study were not diagnosed with gender dysphoria and met the clinical criteria for gender dysphoria.
And notice what the Department of Health said about intersex children, the Republicans do not have any qualms allowing a couple days old baby to have surgery to “correct” their private parts without their consent instead of waiting until they are old enough to make an informed consent. I know an intersex woman who had an operation when she was days old and as an adult she needed multiple operation to correct the butcher job that they did just after her birth.
Did the governor of Florida lie?
Did Florida’s governor embellish story about transgender student?
WFLX Ch 29
By Dave Bohman
April 18, 2022
Critics of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he’s trying to justify his Parental Rights In Education law by repeating a parent’s story that may be full of holes.After signing the Parental Rights In Education bill into law the critics call the "Don't Say Gay" bill, DeSantis has been asked about it at several news conferences, including one in Palm Beach County nearly three weeks ago.
That’s when DeSantis repeated the story of mother in the Tallahassee area, whose 13-year-old child was born female, but identifies as male, and she is now suing the school board.
"Some of the people at school decided that her daughter was really a boy and wanted to identify as a boy. So they changed her name. They changed her quote, pronouns," DeSantis said. "They did these things without telling the mother, much less getting the mother's consent."
The key words: getting their mother’s consent.
That mother, January Littlejohn, claims Leon County schools secretly created a transgender support plan for the 13-year-old child without telling her details.
But WFLX Contact 5 obtained emails from Littlejohn to a teacher that places some of the decisions on how to handle this gender issue with teachers, and even her child as she writes, “whatever you think is best for [the child]. She can handle it herself.”
It certainly seems like that the governor took liberties with the truth.
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