Florida Governor Ron Desantis spoke against gender-affirming treatment for children. Governor Desantis noted that many of the girls that take the drugs are having Double Mastectomies and that they. Desantis would go on to say that the
" They don't tell you what that is, they are really giving many of these young girls are having double mastectomies, and they want to castrate these young boys; that's wrong."
Desantis would go on to say that he believes many of these doctors should get sued for what's happening.
FLORIDA'S VOICE:
Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for the Florida Department of Health, criticized the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics for supporting sex-reassignment surgeries and puberty blockers as methods of treatment for minors dealing with gender dysphoria.
.@LisaGwynn and the @FloridaAAP support double mastectomies on 14 year old girls with gender dysphoria. Notice how she never calls it what it is.
This is eminence-based ideology. It’s not evidence-based medicine. Regardless of what she claims. pic.twitter.com/u00QdyPQdj
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) August 2, 2022