Florida Surgeon General Ladapo Warns Against Gender Transitions for Children

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has condemned recent recommendations from the Biden administration supporting gender reassignments for adolescents. Citing “the lack of conclusive evidence, and the potential for long-term, irreversible effects,” Ladapo said that children should not undergo gender transition surgeries or use puberty blockers and hormone therapy. 

He explained that social gender transitions, such as name, pronoun, and clothing changes, as well as puberty blockers and hormone therapies for persons under the age of 18, are discouraged, although social support from peers and family, as well as therapy from a certified practitioner, are encouraged. The Washington Examiner reports, Ladapo released a set of guidelines warning against gender transition treatments for children and adolescents as a response to a Department of Health and Human Services report that claimed gender transitions give mental and physical advantages to kids living with gender dysphoria, or emotional pain caused by a discrepancy between gender identity and biological sex

In a press release on the Florida Health website, he stated, “The federal government’s medical establishment releasing guidance failing at the most basic level of academic rigor shows that this was never about health care. It was about injecting political ideology into the health of our children. Children experiencing gender dysphoria should be supported by family and seek counseling, not pushed into an irreversible decision before they reach 18.”

Research has shown that only a small percentage of transgender adolescents continued to feel that way as they got older. Additionally, Ladapo highlighted the dangers of pursuing transition therapies in children, such as cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, infertility, an increased risk of cancer, and thrombosis.

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