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by Jackie Llanos, Florida Phoenix
January 22, 2024
Florida House Republicans approved a proposal Monday that would require health insurance companies providing gender-affirming care for transgender people to also cover therapies to affirm a person’s sex assigned at birth — otherwise known as conversion therapy.
The sponsor of HB 1639, GOP Rep. Douglas Michael Bankson representing parts of Orange and Seminole counties, said he doesn’t intend to make anyone choose to reverse transition procedures but that he wants to make that choice more accessible.
The legislation mainly focuses on mandating coverage of detransition treatments to reverse the process of gender-affirming care such as hormone replacement therapy. However, Bankson also plans to swap gender for sex assigned at birth in state driver’s licenses and IDs.
“We want to make sure that those who have not found the answers that they’re looking for, have the opportunity to go back and detransition and seek the wholeness that they’re looking for,” Bankson said during the bill’s hearing Monday on the Select Committee on Health Innovation.
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