{"id":9588,"date":"2022-06-04T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/florida-governors-policies-stir-up-controversy\/"},"modified":"2022-06-04T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T00:30:09","slug":"florida-governors-policies-stir-up-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=9588","title":{"rendered":"Florida Governor\u2019s Policies Stir Up Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dpnmiuu42Cg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis is threatening the Special Olympics with a $27 million fine over their vaccine mandate. DeSantis has also taken another aim at the transgender community as his Surgeon General penned a letter to the Medical Board, asking for a \u2018new standard of care\u2019 for transgender youth, writing, \u201cI recommended against certain pharmaceutical, non-pharmaceutical, and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria.\u201d These treatments have already been endorsed by both the American Medical Association and The American Academy of Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Subscribe to NBC News: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/SubscribeToNBC\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/SubscribeToNBC<\/a><br \/>\n\u00bb Watch more NBC video: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MoreNBCNews\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MoreNBCNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. 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DeSantis has also taken another aim at the transgender community as his Surgeon General penned a letter to the Medical Board, asking for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,5354,179,4025,5350,5351,5224,5352,38,5263,165,5353,149],"class_list":["post-9588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-breaking-news","tag-evening-news","tag-health","tag-international-news","tag-lester-holt","tag-making-a-difference","tag-national-news","tag-nbc-nightly-news","tag-news","tag-nightly-news","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}