“While clinical organizations like the AAP endorse the above treatments, none of those organizations relies on high quality evidence,” the AHCA Medicaid report says, swiping at the experts. The latter says they are, and the former says they’re not and that the evidence isn’t there. But some of the researchers told the Tampa Bay Times that he misrepresented their work and cherry-picked data, similar to an accusation other physicians and health care experts leveled a month later over the Health Department’s guidance concerning transgender youth.Ī major difference between the DeSantis administration and the experts: whether the pharmaceutical treatments are reversible. In March, Ladapo recommended against Covid vaccines for children, citing a host of studies. It’s not the first time DeSantis and Ladapo have faced off against the experts when it comes to children and medical therapy.
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Most professional medical associations oppose or have guidance in opposition to the DeSantis administration’s posture on transition-related care, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. He said that operations for children - mainly mastectomies for transgender boys - are exceedingly rare and that they occur only after multiple evaluations.ĭeSantis’ administration notes that Sweden and Finland, which were among the first countries to engage in prescribing a broad range of transition-related care for transgender children, have severely curtailed their use now.īut his administration has gone a step further, experts say, by also seeking to ban what’s called “social gender transition therapy” - prohibiting therapists from encouraging children to change their pronouns, hair and dress in accordance with their gender identities. Howell said doctors aren’t just prescribing puberty blockers or hormones without adequate safeguards or without the informed consent of caring and involved parents. “This interferes with the rights of parents,” Howell said, drawing attention to DeSantis’ crusade for parental rights when it comes to teaching kids about race, gender identity and sexual orientation in the classroom. The process could take months, and it’s unclear how many people it could affect. Ladapo then asked the Florida Board of Medicine to “establish a standard of care” Thursday that could ultimately result in prohibiting doctors from prescribing the therapies for transgender youths. In a partial answer to the criticisms, Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration issued its report Thursday questioning the science and safety of hormone therapies, puberty blockers and gender-reassignment surgery. Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden, and transgender rights activists and 300 state health care professionals accused Florida of cherry-picking evidence and performing incomplete research.
It contradicted guidance issued by the U.S. In April, Ladapo issued guidance recommending against transgender treatments for minors who feel their bodies and their gender identities are misaligned. Findings point to the importance of ethnic ties and involving ethnic community organizations in HIV prevention efforts.Leading the charge for DeSantis: Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, who oversees the Health Department. Gay community attachment was not significantly related to risk behaviors. Latino YMSM connected to their ethnic community were about 40% less likely to report recent unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) with a male partner, and 60% less likely to have engaged in UAI during the last sexual contact with a nonmain male partner.
Greater social support in sexual matters was associated with ethnic and gay community attachments. Sixty-eight percent felt closely connected to their ethnic community about 34% were highly attached to both neighborhood and New York City gay communities. We examined factors that influence ethnic and gay community attachments the association between community attachments and social support in sexual matters and the relationship between levels of attachment, social support in sexual matters, and sexual risk behaviors. As part of Hermanos Jóvenes, 465 Latino YMSM were surveyed at community venues of New York City outside the gay-identified area of lower Manhattan. Culturally relevant prevention programs are required to reduce HIV risk exposure of Latino young men who have sex with men (YMSM).