DeSantis Administration Moves to Ban Medicaid Coverage for 'Experimental' Trans Surgeries, Drugs

Raymond Wolfe : Jun 7, 2022
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Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo last week also asked the state medical board to develop policies that would restrict 'gender transitions' for minors.

(Tallahassee, FL) — [LifeSiteNews.com] The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is moving to prohibit Medicaid coverage for transgender procedures and ban them for minors. (Screengrab image)

In a report released Thursday, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) determined that Florida's $36 billion Medicaid program should not include coverage for so-called "gender transition" drugs and surgeries, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and mutilating "sex change" operations. 

The AHCA report concluded that the procedures have not been proven safe or effective to treat gender dysphoria, a disorder that involves feelings of distress about one's sex, and do not meet generally accepted professional medical standards (GAPMS). Treatments must conform to GAPMS to receive Medicaid coverage, according to the report.

"Available medical literature provides insufficient evidence that sex reassignment through medical intervention is a safe and effective treatment for gender dysphoria. 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," states the report, signed by state deputy director for Medicaid Tom Wallace.

"Rather, the available evidence demonstrates that these treatments cause irreversible physical changes and side effects that can affect long-term health," it adds, pointing to the likelihood of infertility or sterility as a result of cross-sex hormones and "sex reassignment" surgeries. "Considering the weak evidence supporting the use of puberty suppression, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures when compared to the stronger research demonstrating the permanent effects they cause, these treatments do not conform to [generally accepted medical standards] and are experimental and investigational"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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