{"id":1829375,"date":"2023-01-30T18:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T23:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829375"},"modified":"2023-01-30T18:34:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T23:34:50","slug":"pediatric-medical-body-subpoenaed-to-provide-florida-with-documentation-on-child-sex-change-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pediatric-medical-body-subpoenaed-to-provide-florida-with-documentation-on-child-sex-change-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pediatric Medical Body Subpoenaed To Provide Florida With Documentation On Child Sex Change Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpediatric-medical-body-subpoenaed-to-provide-florida-with-documentation-on-child-sex-change-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A federal judge has directed a well-known pediatric medical group to offer services. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/florida\">Florida<\/a> Documents explaining why the government supports sexchanges for children are provided by officials.<\/p>\n<p>The demand of the American Academy of Pediatrics\u2019 (AAP) was prompted by its participation in a federal lawsuit against a new Sunshine State law that\u00a0bars the use of Medicaid to cover sex change procedures. The AAP is one of 18 groups facing the same fate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2023\/01\/26\/florida-trans-treatment-lawsuit\/\">subpoenas<\/a> of\u00a0documents and communications on guidelines and policies regarding youth medical transition from the\u00a0Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA).<\/p>\n<p> Other groups involved in the lawsuit include the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, Pediatric Endocrine Society, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, and Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>At an hour-long hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols narrowed the Florida agency\u2019s request for \u201cany\u201d relevant records to those \u201csufficient to show\u201d the AAP\u2019s total membership, how it establishes guidelines and policy positions for child sex change treatments, as well as any \u201cofficial communication\u201d with their entire membership concerning the matter.<\/p>\n<p> The AAP has until Feb. 2 to comply.<\/p>\n<p>The order was the latest development in the case, brought by transgender rights groups with the backing of the medical groups and Yale. They are suing Florida, arguing its ban on Medicaid covering sex change treatments violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs sought a preliminary injunction against the Medicaid ban, but the request was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/12\/florida-medicaid-ban-transgender-treatments-00061500\">denied<\/a> in October. Judge Robert Hinkle ruled that the ban did not violate constitutional rights, but instead would be determined by the Medicaid statute.<\/p>\n<p>The AAP endorsed child sex change treatments in a 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.aap.org\/pediatrics\/article\/142\/4\/e20182162\/37381\/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">policy statement<\/a>, which was conceptualized, drafted, reviewed, revised, and approved by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/the-hijacking-of-pediatric-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">single<\/a> committee member, Dr. Jason Rafferty.<\/p>\n<p>Leor Sapir, a Manhattan Institute fellow, charged that the AAP and other prominent organizations that favor child sex changes, which they euphemistically call \u201cgender-affirming care,\u201d lack evidence to back up their position and are at odds with a growing international consensus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the issue of medical treatment for youth gender dysphoria in particular, American medical organizations have demonstrated a preference for ideologically driven conclusions over cautious review of the available research,\u201d Sapir said.<\/p>\n<p> According to Sapir, the AAP\u2019s central conclusion is based on flawed logic and interpretations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRafferty\u2019s central claim in that article is that \u2018watchful waiting,\u2019 a therapeutic approach in which clinicians delay social and medical transition as long as possible in order to exhaust all efforts to help youth in distress feel comfortable in their bodies, is a form of \u2018conversion therapy,\u2019\u201d said Sapir. The citations used to defend this claim had nothing to do with gender self-identification and were all based on the discredited practice of trying to get gay and lesbian adults to \u201cconvert\u201d to heterosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Rafferty argued that clinicians should always \u201caffirm\u201d the gender self-declarations of their pediatric patients. In 2020, Dr. James Cantor of the Toronto Sexuality Centre published a thorough <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31838960\/\">fact-check<\/a> of Rafferty\u2019s article in another journal. The fact-check revealed that the AAP policy contained \u201cegregious omissions and misrepresentations of the available research on youth gender dysphoria,\u201d said Sapir.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is one of 10 states that does not allow state-sponsored insurance to cover elective sex change treatments. The state of Florida conducted a systematic review of the evidence in support of \u201cgender-affirming\u201d care and abandoned the practice after finding the costs far outweigh any purported benefits. Last November, Florida<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/florida-medical-boards-vote-to-ban-medical-transition-for-minors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> passed a rule<\/a> that prohibits minors from receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-related surgeries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has ordered a prominent pediatric medical group to provide Florida officials with documents explaining why it supports sex changes for children. 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