General members until December 5th Request that the Medical Commission, the Osteopathic Medical Commission, or both Commissions hold hearings on regulations regarding the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors.
of Monday Osteopathic Medical Board published the rules agreed to develop in Orlando This prohibits surgeons from performing gender-confirming surgery on minors. Osteopathic Medical Board regulations allow physicians to treat minors with anti-pubertal hormones as long as the patient agrees to participate in an Institutional Review Board study at the Florida Medical College.
of The medical board also announced the rule on Monday Agreed to ban surgeons in Orlando from performing sex reassignment surgery on minors or any other surgical procedure that alters primary or secondary sex characteristics.
However, unlike the Osteopathic Medical Board, the Medical Board’s proposed rule also prohibits physicians from treating minors with sex-denying hormones. Joseph Radapo.
Neither medical board agreed with requiring adults to wait 24 hours before seeking health care, as Radapo had originally advocated.
This is the first time the Board has agreed to proceed with a substantially different “standard of care” rule.
Both regulations being promoted by the Medical Commission will allow minors who were treated with puberty-blocking hormones before the regulations went into effect to continue to do so.
There have already been several public meetings about the rules. But Monday’s publication marks the official start of the rule-making process. The process gives him 21 days to provide comments and request a hearing, as outlined in the decree.
A state agency or board pursuing a rule is not obligated to hold a public meeting, but requests are usually granted because decisions not to allow public meetings can be appealed.
The public has 21 days after the hearing to challenge the rules or regulations with the state. Administrative Hearing DivisionHowever, these objections must be filed by a “valid” party subject to the rules. Challenges usually also focus on statutory or constitutional flaws in the rules.
The medical board’s move to change standard-of-care rules to address gender-affirming health care prompted state Medicaid officials to ban safety-net programs for the poor, elderly, and disabled from reimbursement for services. This rule is being challenged in federal court.
The Department of Health Care provided the data to the Florida Department of Political Affairs. This shows that very few Medicaid beneficiaries in Florida receive gender-confirmed care.
Between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, 12 children and 13 adults had surgery and were reimbursed by Medicaid.
The most common procedure in both groups was simple mastectomy, with 3 children and 6 adults undergoing this procedure over a 12-month period.
In total, 15 gender-confirming surgeries were performed on 12 children and 19 on adults.
A child is defined as a beneficiary under the age of 21. Thus, the pediatric category includes procedures performed on adult patients aged 18, 19, or 20 years. Additionally, Florida Medicaid does not provide benefits to children without parental consent.
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