Gov. DeSantis is reshaping Florida's medical boards
Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to remake important medical boards that have been a key component of his push to limit gender-affirming care, especially for minors.
And his latest appointments are drawing fire from critics who contend the new appointees are being put in place to keep pushing ahead with a “transphobic” agenda.
DeSantis this week appointed two doctors to the Board of Medicine, both of whom have weighed in on the debate over the types of treatment offered to minors. The Board of Medicine agreed in November to alter the standard-of-care rules to ban doctors from performing gender-confirming surgeries on anyone under 18 and from supplying puberty blockers and hormones to anyone under...
