Wed May 17, 2023 – 5:32 pm EDTWed May 17, 2023 – 5:34 pm EDT
TAMPA, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Florida Republican governor and likely presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Wednesday officially banned mutilating transgender surgeries and drugs for minors as part of a broad legislative package to protect the state’s kids from transgender ideology. Not shy about wading into raging culture war issues, DeSantis opted to sign the bills, which have been decried by LGBT activists as a “slate of hate,” on the “International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.”
“Florida is proud to lead the way in standing up for our children,” DeSantis said in a Wednesday press release. “As the world goes mad, Florida represents a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy.”
Part of the “Let Kids Be Kids” legislative package, Senate Bill 254 will explicitly prohibit destructive transgender surgeries and experimental drugs, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for anyone under age 18. The law will codify the Florida Board of Medicine’s October vote to ban the drugs and surgeries for minors.
With my signature, Florida permanently prohibits genital mutilating surgical procedures and experimental puberty blockers for minors.
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