Ladapo Responds to Boards Banning Puberty Blockers, Gender Transition Surgeries in Minors: ‘Protect Our Children’

Published Nov. 7, 2022, 9:08 a.m. ET | Updated Nov. 7, 2022

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LAKE BUENA VISTA (FLV) – Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo praised the Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine for voting to prohibit certain gender dysphoria treatments in minors Friday.

“Today’s vote from the Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine will protect our children from irreversible surgeries and highly experimental treatments,” Ladapo said.

The medical boards banned sex reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for those under the age 18.

“I appreciate the integrity of the Boards for ruling in the best interest of children in Florida despite facing tremendous pressure to permit these unproven and risky treatments,” Ladapo said. “Children deserve to learn how to navigate this world without harmful pressure, and Florida will continue to fight for kids to be kids.”

The boards differed on how to regulate minors who have already begun undergoing treatment with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. The Board of Osteopathic Medicine voted to allow those treatments to continue for minors if they were part of an IRB approved clinical trial. However, the Board of Medicine voted against the exception.

The next step will be for the proposed rules to be noticed in the Florida Administrative Register.

In June, Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo asked the Florida Board of Medicine to look the findings and establish a standard of care for these “complex and irreversible procedures.” He has recommended against certain pharmaceutical, non-pharmaceutical and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria. He cited a lack of conclusive evidence and “long-term irreversible harms” from the treatments.

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