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Transgender community, parents fear fallout of Florida’s ban on gender-affirming care

People hold signs during a joint board meeting of the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., to establish new guidelines limiting gender-affirming care in Florida. Members have signaled support for prohibiting puberty blockers, cross-hormonal treatment and gender-affirming surgery as methods to treat gender dysphoria in patients under the age of 18. Critics say the rules, urged by Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo, wo
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Florida medical boards vote to prohibit gender-affirming care for minors

Two state medical boards voted Friday to prohibit gender-affirming treatment for patients in Florida under the age of 18, despite warnings from some parents and practitioners that the ban will harm transgender youth.

The decision by the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine to prohibit puberty blockers, cross-hormonal treatment and gender-affirming surgery as methods to treat gender dysphoria in minors followed a pair of acrimonious public meetings in Orlando.
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Florida panel backs ban on gender-affirming care for minors at contentious meeting

After five hours discussing proposed restrictions on gender-affirming care, members of a key state medical committee cut short a contentious public meeting in Orlando — exiting as many in the crowd chanted, “Their blood is on your hands!”

A joint rules panel of the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine met Friday at the Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport for a workshop on potential guidelines limiting gender-affirming care in Florida.

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UCF health students come together offer physical, mental care to farmworkers in Apopka

Sitting at a wooden desk full of paperwork and little space left for his computer, Bryce Hagedorn tried to reach someone on the phone. Next to him, a door bears the sign “social work” in both English and Spanish.

As the director of the counselor education program at UCF, Hagedorn led the behavioral component of the Apopka Farmworkers Clinic on March 31.

The quarterly event, which had not been held in person in two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, brought UCF students to Apopka to offer heal

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