# Florida Department of Health Guidelines for Treatment of Gender Dysphoria in Children and Adolescents

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**Created:** [April 25, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-department-of-health-guidelines-for-treatment-of-gender-dysphoria-in-children-and-adolescents/963426 "2022-04-25T18:15:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-department-of-health-guidelines-for-treatment-of-gender-dysphoria-in-children-and-adolescents/963426/21 "2022-04-30T21:02:43Z")

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any engaged parent will figure out within a year if their teenage child is really transgender vs a drama queen vs experimentation. You don’t finish a combined middle high school in eigth grade as Ellen and start 9th grade as Jackson on a whim or as an attentention whore. No one does that.

Sure, I initially thought that “when you’re 18 you can start hormone therapy and gender affirming surgery.” It took me about 18 months to come around that I was the blocker and not my son. BTW, son has a good therapist that has been helpful.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-department-of-health-guidelines-for-treatment-of-gender-dysphoria-in-children-and-adolescents/963426/22 "2022-04-30T21:55:06Z")

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> [@Kimstu](#):
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> But yeah, if all the conservatives are so outraged about “altering children in an irreversible way”, then they need to take a harder look at routine infant circumcision. If we agree that irreversible surgery on children’s genitals shouldn’t be performed for transgender-identity reasons, then there’s no really logical justification for permitting it for religious-dogma reasons.

It’s not even just for religious reasons. The vast majority of American males are circumcised, even though only a small minority belong to religions that have ritual circumcision. It’s purely a cultural thing.

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