Florida medical boards vote to ban youth gender transition procedures

Florida's Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine both approved a rule on Friday to prohibit minors in the state from receiving gender transition surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone therapies, the first such ban initiated through state medical boards. Under the new rule, people under 18 years old will be prohibited from receiving these treatments. The Board of Osteopathic Medicine passed an exception in its rule for those that are already enrolled in a Food and Drug Administration Institutional Review Board-approved clinical trial at an affiliated university center, while the Board of Medicine did not.-- More...