DeSantis spats with reporter on ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors ruling: ‘It’s wrong!’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis snapped at a reporter Wednesday after he was asked why taxpayer dollars should go to appealing a recent court ruling that allows transgender medical operations for children.
“Because its wrong to mutilate minors. It is wrong to perform a sex change on a 16-year old,” DeSantis said. “You’re not allowed to get a tattoo, but somehow you can have your privates cut off? Give me a break. This is wrong.”

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The ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle for the Northern District of Florida stated that “gender identity is real,” and that “cross sex hormones” are part of “proper treatment” for minors choosing to identify with a gender not matching his/her biology.
“Florida has adopted a statute and rules that ban gender-affirming care for minors even when medically appropriate,” Hinkle wrote. “The ban is unconstitutional.”
Rejecting Hinkle’s ruling, DeSantis mentioned a decision upholding another state’s position had already been made by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
“They upheld Alabama’s law which was almost identical to Florida’s law. This will be reversed. There is no question that it will be reversed,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis piled on by speculating the constitutional right to genital mutilation would even have been ridiculed by America’s founding fathers and the first Congress.
“Of course the state can protect children against this and we had very powerful testimony how this is irreversible,” DeSantis said.
He also chided the media for honing in on the state using taxpayer money to fight against mutilation.
“If you say that we shouldn’t do that, you’re saying that any liberal judge should be able to veto the policy of the state of Florida, because they go to the same judges every time, we lose almost every time, and then we win on appeal almost every time,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis added not upholding statute against liberal justices amounted to people not governing themselves or controlling their own destiny.
“We are going to stand up for duly enacted statutes, we’re going to stand up for protecting the innocence of these kids,” DeSantis said.
He also believed ulterior motives could come out of the ruling, including doctors performing sex changes on children for financial gain.
“I would say it goes beyond that, cause what this is doing when they’re doing a sex change on a teenager, there’s a lot of people that want to make money off that, consequences be damned,” he said. “They’re lining their pockets and they can care less about what’s going to happen to that teenager when they become 25, which many regret and have big time problems as a result of that.”
Furthermore, DeSantis ridiculed the idea of genital mutilation and puberty blocking as “gender-affirming,” equating that the term was trying to change basic biology and how someone was born.
“I think its about are we going to be rooted in truth as a society or not. If we are rooted in truth, then you would say of course you can’t do these surgeries because its not going to take and transform somebody that’s a male into a female,” DeSantis said.

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