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Lgbt newsletter8/31/2023 In addition to signing the document, Smith, and other transgender adults, will have to consent to a suicidal-risk assessment evaluation every three months, and an evaluation with a psychiatrist or psychologist every two years, on top of the monthly blood work she already had to do before SB 254. It's like the bully says 'You want this don't you?' And they're gonna mess with you to the point that it's just not even worth it." "I have to sign this agreement to continue what I've been doing for 23 years. "It feels invalidating like, we're agreeing that our condition, for lack of a better term, is not valid or based on good evidence. "So really now it's just been finding the right doctor," she said. Under the new rules, former patients can continue receiving medication but only through a physician and after signing a state-approved informed consent document. Smith has been taking estrogen for 23 years but her access to it was cut off after SB 254 prevented nursing practitioners at clinics from prescribing hormone replacement therapy, also know as HRT. “It just was really unreasonable," said Lisa Smith, a transgender woman from Orlando. Later in June, the Florida Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine had a joint meeting to finalize rules surrounding how children and adults previously receiving gender-affirming care could continue to do so under new guidelines. Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 254 which outlaws gender-affirming care for children and restricts how adults receive it. Thousands of transgender adults are grappling with Florida’s new health landscape after two state medical boards issued new rules for care at the end of June, but some transgender adults and experts feel the new rules potentially do more harm than good.
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