A Florida lawmaker who is urging some employers to foot the gender bill Detransitions fired back at Joe Biden after the President criticized Florida’s policy on children with gender dysphoria.
Last year, Florida introduced policies banning puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery for children with gender dysphoria, and gender identity education for kindergarten through third graders. Biden called the policy “cruel” and “almost sinful” in a Monday interview on The Daily Show.
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“It amazes me that he is committed to helping children who can’t go to an R-rated movie without an adult make forever life-changing decisions that they may never be able to undo,” said Blaise Ingoglia, Senator of the U.S State of Florida, to Fox News. “Florida watches out for kids while Joe Biden watches out for the radicals.”
During the interview, Biden said Congress must act to reverse Florida’s policy.
“And the way we’re doing that is we’re making sure that we’re passing legislation the way we passed same-sex marriage on,” he told The Daily Show guest host Kal Penn, a former aide to Barack Obama. “If you mess with this, you are breaking the law and will be held accountable.”
“It’s not like a kid wakes up one morning and says, ‘You know, I want to be a man’ or ‘I want to be a woman.’ What are you thinking of here? They are people, they love, they have feelings, they have inclinations,” Biden said called.
Ingoglia accused Biden of giving in to pressure.
“What is sinful is the way President Biden is succumbing to the awakened mob and leftists of his own party,” he said in a statement to Fox News.
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Ingoglia last month introduced the Reverse Woke Act, which requires companies that have paid for an employee’s gender change to also fund their detransition upon request, even if they left the company or received initial treatment in another state .
“If at some point in the future you pay for the transition, should people regret it and want the transition, you actually have to pay for it too, regardless of whether they’re an employee at that point or not,” he said.
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Senator Blaise Ingoglia answers a question about one of his actions on February 8, 2023 at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)
At the time of the bill’s introduction, Ingoglia said nearly 30 companies had pledged to pay for their employees traveling from Florida for sex reassignment surgery. He added that the law will cover all Florida workers even if their employers are based elsewhere.
“Disney is based in California, but they have a number of employees here in the state of Florida,” he told Operations. So since you are a Florida employee, you would be included under this law.
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He said Starbucks and Target also made similar promises.
The bill has yet to receive a vote.
Following Biden’s comments, the Florida Agency for Health Care called the Biden administration’s “gender-affirming” model “decades behind other developed countries.”
The Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee. (myflorida.com)
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“What is ‘sinful’ is the establishment pushing harmful surgeries and treatments with long-term effects on minors without accountability or transparency,” Florida Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Jason Weida told Fox News in a statement.
“Last year the agency conducted a thorough investigation review of several federally funded gender dysphoria treatment services and found that these services — gender reassignment surgery, cross-gender hormones, and puberty blockers — do not conform to generally accepted professional medical standards and are experimental and experimental with potentially harmful potential for long-term effects,” he added.
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