A joint committee of the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine is set to meet on September 30 to discuss a draft rule that would restrict doctors from performing medical gender transition procedures such as mastectomies, hysterectomies, penile inversions, and hormone therapy on children.
A notice published on Sept. 7 in the Florida Administrative Register said the joint committee “will conduct a rule workshop and meeting to receive and consider presentations from subject matter experts and comments from the public, and to discuss and develop draft rule language related to practice standards for the treatment of gender dysphoria.”
The meeting, which will be held in the state capital of Tallahassee, comes after the Florida Department of Health in July filed a petition seeking a rule-making process on the issue of performing such procedures on minors to ease gender dysphoria, reported Orlando Weekly. Read more…
