{"id":558535,"date":"2021-06-09T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T21:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558535"},"modified":"2021-06-09T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T21:36:19","slug":"exclusive-desantis-says-he-would-ban-trans-surgeries-for-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-desantis-says-he-would-ban-trans-surgeries-for-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis Says He Would Ban Trans Surgeries For Minors"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fexclusive-desantis-says-he-would-ban-trans-surgeries-for-minors%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=558535&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-design-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>MIAMI \u2014 Gov. Ron DeSantis said that he would sign legislation banning transgender surgeries for minors \u201cfor sure\u201d during a Monday interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Republican made the comments during an interview with the DCNF\u2019s Mary Margaret Olohan in Miami, Florida, where he discussed how he handled <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/07\/ron-desantis-country-music-festival-fauci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lockdowns<\/a> in his state, Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s leaked <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/02\/fauci-emails-muzzle-trump-biden-immigration-video-discussion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emails<\/a>, transgender athletes in sports and more. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/18\/kayleigh-mcenany-conservative-women-media-mary-margaret-olohan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Kayleigh McEnany Reflects On Media\u2019s Bias Against Conservative Women)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very much opposed to chemical castration of minors, I honestly didn\u2019t know this existed until a few years ago,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat would be something I would sign for sure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Florida lawmakers introduced legislation to ban transgender surgeries and procedures for children, titled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/Sections\/Bills\/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=71980\">Youth Gender and Sexual Identity Act<\/a>, but the bill died in a Professions &#038; Public Health Subcommittee on April 30.<\/p>\n<p>The governor signed the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2021\/1475\/BillText\/Filed\/PDF\">Fairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act<\/a> only last week, which banned biological males from women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s discrimination against our women athletes to force them to participate against male athletes,\u201d DeSantis said of transgender students playing in girl\u2019s sports. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/02\/desantis-noem-womens-sports-ncaa\/\">(RELATED: \u2018Woke\u2019 Pressure \u2018Strengthened\u2019 DeSantis Decision To Ban Biological Males From Women\u2019s Sports, Spox Says)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt needs to be a level playing field, and it needs to be fair, and it should all be based on biology, not based on ideology,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/02\/desantis-noem-womens-sports-ncaa\/\">re-iterated<\/a> that pressure from \u201cwoke\u201d corporations against the Fairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act only encouraged him more to sign the bill and suggested that Republican governors who shy away from signing legislation like his do so out of fear of these corporations. But DeSantis said that caving to pressure from these woke corporations is turning \u201cover the reigns of government to them\u201d and letting them \u201cset the policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat ain\u2019t happening in Florida,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ron DeSantis Slams Dr. Fauci After LEAKED Emails Reignite Wuhan Lab Leak Theories\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YxyilvmW7XA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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Ron DeSantis said that he would sign legislation banning transgender surgeries for minors \u201cfor sure\u201d during a Monday interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.The Florida Republican &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279794,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-design-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis Says He Would Ban Trans Surgeries For Minors","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Untitled-design-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis Says He Would Ban Trans Surgeries For Minors","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}