Florida State Health Agency issues report challenging science behind “gender-affirming” care.
QUICK FACTS:
- The State of Florida Health Agency has released a report on the science of transgenderism to the Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA), which oversees Florida’s Medicaid program.
- The report was exclusively obtained by Breitbart News and apparently sets the stage for the state to question and potentially end “gender-affirming” care for transgender-identifying individuals.
- Experts concluded that a number of the treatments used for those who ask for assistance with the mental condition of gender dysphoria are not safe.
- Sex reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers, and cross-sex hormone treatments for people with gender dysphoria were all cited in the report as not having been proven “safe or effective.”
- “Studies presenting the benefits to mental health, including those claiming that the services prevent suicide, are either low or very low quality and rely on unreliable methods such as surveys and retrospective analyses, both of which are cross-sectional and highly biased,” according to the document.
STUDY FINDINGS:
- “Experts in the fields of health care research, clinical psychology, plastic surgery, pediatric endocrinology, and bioethics, reviewed available research about these treatments for both adults and children through the lens of Medicaid’s standard of coverage,” the study outlined. “The report sifts through existing studies about gender dysphoria treatments and provides notes about the validity of them based on the conclusions of the studies, the ways in which they were conducted, and the questions left unanswered.”
- “While clinical organizations like the AAP endorse the above treatments, none of those organizations relies on high quality evidence. Their eminence in the medical community alone does not validate views in the absence of quality, supporting, evidence,” the report reads. “To the contrary, the evidence shows that the above treatments pose irreversible consequences, exacerbate or fail to alleviate existing mental conditions, and cause infertility or sterility. Given the current state of the evidence, the above treatments do not conform to GAPMS and are experimental and investigational.”
- “’Gender-affirming care’ — a euphemism intended to make the mutilation of the human body sound like a compassionate course of action — has been endorsed by far-left activists and Democrats, including the Biden administration. Advocates for transgender medical procedures also cite favorable reports by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. The Biden administration has additionally been pushing for wide availability of gender dysphoria treatments for children, even though the treatments can result in irreversible health consequences, and went as far as releasing a chart of recommendations for treatments.”
BACKGROUND:
- Florida’s health department analysis follows a number of studies over the years, exploring the patterns of gender dysphoria.
- One such study by Human Life International discovered that on average 80% of children suffering from gender dysphoria change their minds and do not continue into adulthood frustrated with their gender.
