State employee testimony and internal records show how closely the state coordinated with consultants who have taken stances counter to major medical organizations. Records shows Florida's role in report on transgender care:
; James Cantor, a Canadian psychologist and sex researcher who has written a contrary response to the American Academy of Pediatrics policy supporting medical care for gender dysphoria; and Gerard Kevin Donovan, a Georgetown bioethicist who has written that “present day denigrations”Most of the consultants did not respond to questions sent by email or declined to comment.
An agency leader also sought people to speak against medical transition and was willing to pay a consultant to find them. Jason Weida, who is now the agency’s secretary, asked a consultant to recruit Floridians who regretted gender-affirming treatment or doctors who turned against the practice, text messages show.
The two kept in touch after the Medicaid rule went into effect and as litigation over the rule continued. In November, Van Mol texted Weida to tell him that it was a “downer” not to have testified before the Board of Medicine — which— but said it was “very wise of you and therefore the board to have taken my advice” to have specialists speak.
Public salary data shows that at least two of the staffers involved with implementing that controversial recommendation received raises well beyond the norm.
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