Florida Medical Board Votes to Ban Transgender Hormone Treatments and Surgeries for Minors Under 18

Susan Berry, PhD, The Star News Network

The Florida Board of Medicine has voted to ban puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and

surgeries such as double mastectomies and castrations – activists call “gender-affirming care” – for children under the age of 18 in the state. The move to prohibit the life-altering hormones and surgeries for the treatment of gender dysphoria in children and teens makes the Florida medical board the first in the nation to pursue such a rule.