Tue Feb 14, 2023 – 1:27 pm EST
TALLAHASSEE, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Two medical boards in Florida recently voted to further extend the prohibition on minors taking transgender drugs and getting surgeries as part of the state’s larger efforts to stop the chemical and genital mutilation of children.
The February 10 joint meeting vote by the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine and the Florida Board of Medicine closes a loophole that allowed universities to give kids “puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgery to treat gender dysphoria,” as part of clinical trials, Florida’s Voice reported.
The full meeting can be viewed here. Numerous gender-confused individuals testified to the need to ensure that young kids can be injected with hormones or have reproductive organs chopped off or otherwise permanently sterilized.
In October, the Board of Medicine voted to ban transgender drugs and surgeries for minors but allowed for the university experimentation exception.
Governor Ron DeSantis recently said that he plans to continue to fight the chemical and genital mutilation of children.
At a January 31 news conference, the Republican governor criticized medical professionals for “giving teenagers, kids puberty blockers. They’re doing sex change operations. And so we actually have,
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