By Lorenz Duchamp
Governor of Florida. Ron DeSantis applauded recently signed legislation that would allow minors who are victims of medical malpractice after gender reassignment procedures to sue doctors.
Speaking on the “Dinesh D’Souza Podcast” Thursday, DeSantis addressed the issue, saying doctors who perform irreversible sex-change surgeries on children “should go to jail for that.”
On Wednesday, the Republican governor signed a series of bills into law before an enthusiastic crowd at the evangelical Cambridge Christian School in Tampa. One of those bills (pdf), called Senate Bill 254, would ban transgender surgery and puberty blockers for minors, while allowing anyone who regrets the decision to take legal action against the doctor who performed the procedure.
DeSantis warned what he described as “rogue” and “ideological” medical professionals that they could face criminal charges if they sterilized a child before the child was a consenting adult.
“We also did a bill, which is unfortunate that we even have to consider it, to criminalize the mutilation of minors who undergo gender reassignment surgery by these really crooked, ideological doctors,” DeSantis said. “We’ve had heartbreaking testimony from people who went through this when they were minors. Now they are adults and this is something they will now have to deal with for the rest of their lives because irreversible changes have been made.”
“We administratively banned it last year through our medical board, so if a doctor does that, they lose their license in Florida, which is appropriate. But we felt that you have to do more, I mean, if you take out a 15-year-old’s private parts, you know you should go to jail for that. This is absolutely unacceptable,” continued the 44-year-old father of 3 children.
“One thing we’ve done in that bill, though, is we’ve given victims the ability to sue doctors. So if you went through this as a 16 or 15 year old, now you’re 24 or 25 and you have all this irreversible damage, you file a lawsuit against them because they violated the Hippocratic Oath, they put their ideology first from evidence-based medicine, and we just think that’s fundamentally wrong in the state of Florida,” he added.
A “politicized” institution
DeSantis, who appears to be very close to announcing his long-talked-about presidential run, also argued that the US medical establishment is “very politicized” and compared Florida’s approach to restricting gender transition procedures to Sweden, which last year decided to limit such treatment to minors. concerns about long-term side effects.
“They realize … the damage from it was really catastrophic,” DeSantis said. “So they’ve gone in the direction that Florida has gone now even when many places in the United States thought it was a problem.”
“I think what it shows is there are some countries, and that was also true during COVID. Sweden is more “liberal” than us, but they are focused on evidence-based medicine, and I think in the United States. , the medical establishment is really governed by ideology,” the Florida governor asserted.
Some European countries, such as Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom, have already made changes to their treatment model for children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) announced restrictions on puberty blockers for minors last year, arguing that most children with gender dysphoria are going through a “transitional phase” that they will outgrow.
The UK findings echo a report by The Epoch Times, which cited two separate studies that found that 88 percent of boys and girls (ages 2 to 12) who experienced gender dysphoria who did not transition reported are among teenagers and young adults. it was no longer an issue and they accepted their biological sex.
According to the American Psychiatric Association, gender dysphoria is a state of anxiety created by an individual who identifies with the opposite biological sex.
Baby feeding “campaign”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a frequent critic of sex-reassignment procedures on minors in the US, recently doubled down on the number of adults who allow children to undergo such operations, declaring that the sterilization of children should be punishable by life in prison.
“Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should be imprisoned for life,” Musk tweeted in April.
The tech billionaire’s comment came in response to another user’s post mocking an MSNBC op-ed criticizing DeSantis for her policies on parental rights, among other issues.
Musk, who has a child who identifies as transgender, has publicly endorsed transgender minors in the past.
In another Twitter exchange last month, Tesla’s CEO took aim at adults who encourage children to undergo such procedures, claiming they are feeding children “propaganda.
“Furthermore, every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes,” he added. “Therefore, we should not allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until they are at least 18.”
Musk’s outspoken criticisms have also drawn backlash from those who believe minors are capable of making such irreversible and life-changing decisions on their own.
From NTD News