USA ONEAug 5, 2023

Transgender adults in Florida are blindsided that a new law also limits their access to health care

https://lemmy.world/post/2704071

Transgender adults in Florida are blindsided that a new law also limits their access to health care - Lemmy.world

The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. It also requires a physician to oversee any health care related to transitioning, and for people to see that doctor in person. Those rules have proven particularly onerous because many people received care from nurse practitioners and used telehealth. The law also made it a crime to violate the new requirements. Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options.

Show threadHairyBricks
Do doctors not have a right to reject patients who have been groomed into specific therapy seeking behaviors? Do doctors have to be forced to give treatments that they don’t see any efficacy in? So much double speak here. Really want this law did was give doctors the right to not be forced by the state into using a specific politically enforced form of therapy that usually results in suicide.
Aug 6, 2023 at 4:46pmWeb
Show threadrbhfdAug 6, 2023

Should doctors be forced to offer the method for which the scientific consensus is that it’s the best treatment for that issue?

Definitely!

The high rates of suicide are because of lack of treatment or starting too late. Not because of gender affirming treatment.

Show threadSCBAug 6, 2023

Doctors that do no operates on evidence-based best practice should lose their licenses, regardless of what the law states.

That includes doctors who believe nonsense about gender identity being “mental illness” not deserving of appropriate (gender affirming) treatment

Show threadtallwookieAug 6, 2023
fortunately you’re not in charge of which doctors get a license, eh?
Show threadlolcatnipAug 6, 2023
WTF are you on about?