Thread by @genspect

THREAD: US: Florida: LIVE NOW- watch here: thefloridachannel.org (from the menu on right, select the 1pm meeting.) Highlights follow ...

https://twitter.com/genspect/status/1624081802389336066

1/ This is a meeting of Florida's Boards of Medicine & Osteopathic Medicine re: their adopted rules on the treatment of gender dysphoria for Florida MINORS. (Prohibited: puberty blockers/hormones for any NEW patients, "gender-affirming" genital surgeries, double mastectomies.

2/ 1st speaker: A gay woman who is an LBGTQ+ activist. She claims these treatments are "safe, effective & medically necessary", based upon "the science & decades of clinical evidence" as well as her exp working with the trans community. Reads a letter from a mom of a trans teen.

3/ Activist Miss Chris claims kids who have had this treatment say its "lifesaving", its discriminating to deny these med "treatments" to "trans" kids. ACLU, Zinnia Jones-no shows. FL Dept of Heath official testifies that clinical trials shouldn't even be allowed on kids.

4/ (Note: This testimony was because the Board of Osteopathic Medicine's new rules allowed exemptions for kids *enrolled in clinical trials* to access blockers & hormones; the Board of Medicine did not allow such an exemption.)

5/ Pediatric endocrinologist Benson: poor quality research on these treatments for gender dysphoria has shaped "consensus guidelines" and "physician opinion" - this is the lowest level of research! We may not get an RCT, but we could at least have a controlled trial.

6/ January Littlejohn, a licensed mental health counselor, asks that Jamie Reed's #whistleblower pediatric gender clinic testimony be entered into the record, says parents are not being told that kids can work through distress, are being bullied into affirmation, medicalization.

7/ The Boards deliberate - 1 board member points out here is NO GOOD DATA to suggest that these treatments prevent suicide. Vote: Board of Medicine votes to pass its rules. Board of Osteopathic Medicine votes to pass its rules, strike it's exemption re: kids in clinical research.