The attorneys general of a bevy of Republican states filed an amicus brief April 7 in support of Florida’s regulation under Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis prohibiting the use of state funds to bankroll mutilating transgender interventions for minors.
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) last year determined that the Sunshine State’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, LifeSiteNews previously reported.
The AHCA concluded that transgender procedures lack evidence and don’t meet generally accepted professional medical standards (GAPMS), making them ineligible for Medicaid coverage. The restriction was implemented in August.
Transgender activists have since filed a lawsuit against Florida for the rule, along with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Endocrine Society, and the radical World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). WPATH sets the guidelines that hospitals follow for transgender interventions. The organization recently signaled it would recommend lowering age limits for certain mutilating interventions, thereby green-lighting genital surgeries for minors.
In October of last year a federal judge rejected the pro-transgender organizations’ request for an injunction against the Florida Medicaid rule, allowing the state to continue enforcing it.
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