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Florida's Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine both approved a rule on Friday to prohibit minors in the state from receiving gender transition surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone therapies, the first such ban initiated through state medical boards. Under the new rule, people under 18 years old will be prohibited from receiving these treatments. The Board of Osteopathic Medicine passed an exception in its rule for those that are already enrolled in a Food and Drug Administration Institutional Review Board-approved clinical trial at an affiliated university center, while the Board of Medicine did not. Board attorney Ed Tellechea...

A document for doctors in Canada has suggested that they bring up the topic of euthanasia before their patients do if the patient is eligible and it is “medically relevant.” The document, which was created by those who provided medically assisted suicide services or MAID (Medical assistance in dying), claims that doctors not only should bring up euthanasia with their patients but that they have an obligation to do so. The Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, who produced the document, claims that as long as the doctor is not trying to convince or persuade the patient to end...

California law SB-107 allows access to destructive transgender surgeries for all American children without parental consent

Big news in Florida this week as the state's medical licensing board moves to ban bodily mutilation of transgender-identifying children: NBC Out @NBCOUT · Follow Florida Board of Medicine votes to start drafting a rule that will bar all minors in the state from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgeries as treatment for gender dysphoria. After five hours of tense testimony and protests, the Florida Board of Medicine voted Friday to start drafting a rule that would bar all minors in the state from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy or surgeries as treatment for gender dysphoria. Florida's medical board...

An 18-year-old woman is rapidly becoming one of the most powerful voices against transitioning children at a moment in which most politicians and media outlets lack the courage to speak out. Chloe Cole is a self-described “former trans kid” who de-transitioned after undergoing years of puberty blockers and an irreversible double mastectomy at the age of 15. Cole is now traveling across the country to share her story and raise the alarm about gender transition procedures on children, a growing trend she calls “child abuse” and “medical experimentation.” “I’m planning to keep doing this until it stops,” Cole told CNA...

The Florida Board of Medicine has voted to ban 'gender affirming care' for transgender teenagers in the state. The move will block access to puberty blockers and hormone therapies to minors in order to treat gender dysphoria. Those receiving the drugs for other reasons will be exempt from this decision. Board members said the decision was made based on the irreversibility of the drugs and the growing number of people choosing to 'de-transition'.

Remember when they told us "we're coming for your children" and we were supposed to laugh it off? You know how the evangelical-lite crowd told us that it was ridiculous to think that the state would separate parents from children over the gender issue? Well, welcome to 2022! It's happening RIGHT NOW. Indiana parents lose custody after court rules not ‘affirming’ child’s gender identity is ‘abuse’ The father testified at the initial hearing that the parents cannot affirm their child’s transgender identity or use their child’s preferred pronouns because of their religious beliefs. THEPOSTMILLENNIAL.COM https://thepostmillennial.com/indiana-parents-lose-custody-after-court-rules-not-affirming-childs-gender-identity-is-abuse?utm_campaign=64506 Yep, in Indi-freaking-ana the courts...

Less than two-thirds of respondents said they think transgenderism is on the rise because children feel like they can come out without being judged. t Americans feel that children are being "influenced" to come out as transgender and even more Americans said they believe the transgender movement has gone too far by "encouraging" children to medically change their sex, according to a poll released Tuesday. While 27% of likely general election voters said they think transgenderism is rising amongst minors because they feel they can change their gender without being judged, 59% said minors are changing their sex due to...

Joe Biden on Sunday participated in a sit-down interview with NowThis ‘Make Your Mark’ to discuss the midterms and the failing Democrat agenda.

Joe Biden said in an interview with a transgender TikTok star that states shouldn't have the power to regulate any health care related to a person transitioning from one sex to the other. The president denounced Republican states that have passed laws attempting to ban or limit sex change surgeries and transition treatments – like hormone blockers – for children who identify as non binary or transgender. Biden spoke with a panel of six progressive activists for the NowThis News presidential forum on Friday, which aired on Sunday. One of the six panelists was TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney who is...

On Thursday, Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano slammed Democratic rival Josh Shapiro over his refusal to stand up against the "grooming" of children. Speaking with Real America's Voice host David Brody, he specifically called Shapiro out for failing to speak out against the experimentation on foster children being conducted by doctors associated with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. ... "Is Shapiro complicit in this grooming we hear about?" Brody asked. "He sure is," Mastriano answered bluntly. "On top of all this," the Republican added, "he's standing aside while the CHOP is grabbing homeless kids and kids in foster care, apparently,...

CHARLESTON, West Virginia (LifeSiteNews) – Following the passage of a pro-life bill which bans most abortions in the state, West Virginia’s only abortion clinic will halt abortions but remain open to offer transgender hormone and birth control “treatment.” Women’s Health Center of West Virginia released a statement earlier this week in which it promised to continue offering “many other essential services” besides abortion, including STD testing, contraception, and “gender affirming hormone therapy.” “We won’t stop fighting for your right to access comprehensive reproductive health care, and we remain committed to providing the care our community needs,” executive director Katie Quinonez...

A “transgender health” clinic affiliated with the University of Wisconsin (UW) provides “gender affirming” puberty blockers and surgeries, and the program’s director has said she will operate on minors. On Friday, Libs of TikTok shared a series of posts with information about the Comprehensive Gender Services Program at UW Health. Dr. Katherine Gast is a plastic surgeon and director of the program. The clinic’s website has since been removed and all YouTube videos made private. “Now the standard of care is doing puberty blockers which are completely safe, completely reversible,” Gast said in an interview that has also been hidden...

Three major American medical institutions wrote a letter to the Biden administration this week urging it to go after major figures online who are promoting content that exposes some of the radical gender surgeries that are being offered at some places across the country. The American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Children’s Hospital Association all signed the letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, urging the administration to “investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities” that it claimed were “coordinating” and “provoking” outrage online directed at those providing the controversial services. “From Boston to Akron to Nashville to Seattle,...

Merrick Garland has made it abundantly clear that he’s a political hack willing to act as Biden’s private police force. Whether it’s ignoring clear violations of federal law by allowing protestors to gather outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices, or ignoring leftist rioters yet sending a grandmother to prison for taking selfies at the Capitol Garland is willing to take and act on marching orders from the left.Garland is perfectly willing to label parents domestic terrorists when asked to. He sent a SWAT team to arrest a pro-life father at gunpoint for protecting his teenage son. Yet, the multiple...

Seattle Children’s Hospital is standing by its “mission” of providing gender surgeries for children. Many of these irreversible gender surgeries consist of removing healthy tissue and leaving the patients permanently sterilized.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for doctors who perform gender reassignment surgeries on minors to be sued at a Wednesday press conference. “They talk about these very young kids getting gender-affirming care,” DeSantis said, who used air quotes while using the phrase. “What they don’t tell you what that is is that they are giving very young girls double mastectomies, they want to castrate these young boys — that’s wrong.” Several of DeSantis’ press reps have questioned the “gender-affirming care” phrase in recent months, arguing that it doesn’t specify the procedures being performed in some cases. And in April, Florida...

The Biden Administration's claim to be looking out for the well-being of transgenders has been cast into doubt by a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finding that puberty blockers, known as gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) substances, could cause vomiting, headaches, brain swelling and loss of vision in children injected with this drug. U.S. Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine pointed out that "only a small minority of those taking this medication suffers the identified side-effects. We consider this a tolerable risk when the alternative is a life trapped in the wrong body. In my view, 'gender affirming care' is...

The Biden administration promoted the use of puberty blockers for transgender children by citing a study from an LGBT group funded in part by a manufacturer of the controversial drugs used in gender reassignment. In statements commemorating "Transgender Day of Visibility," the White House and Department of Health and Human Services cited research from the Trevor Project to support the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and sex-reassignment procedures in children seeking to change genders. Two of the Trevor Project’s donors, AbbVie and Allergan, make drugs and medical products used in the medical gender transition process. The charitable foundations of...

The parents of a transgender teenager in Texas said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the state is investigating them after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered officials to look into reports of gender-confirming care for kids as abuse. The parents of the 16-year-old girl are asking a judge to block the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services from investigating them and the parents of other transgender youth under a directive Abbott issued last month. The lawsuit marks the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s order and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton...