TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — On Thursday, The Florida Standard revealed that University of Florida Health is implementing “inclusive” laboratory testing that ignores differences between male and female biology – potentially risking lives, according to the whistleblower and physicians.
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) has now taken an interest in what is going on at UF Health. The agency licenses and regulates over 48,000 health care providers in Florida. Those facilities must comply with state and federal regulations and pass the agency’s inspections to be able to operate.
“Unfortunately, if these reports are true, health care professionals are once again caving to the woke mob instead of promoting sound medical research and innovation. Knowingly removing biology from medicine is not only wrong, it is scientifically unsound,” says AHCA Communications Director Bailey Smith.
In a statement provided to The Florida Standard, AHCA confirms that in medical research, an individual’s sex is tied to medical conditions, chronic illness, disease and disease progression.
“Eliminating the sex from diagnostic tests would limit researcher’s understanding of any genetic and physiological factors that may lead to a certain health outcome,” Smith explains.
AHCA brings up the example of osteoporosis, a condition that especially affects women – nearly 80 percent of Americans with osteoporosis are female.
“To slow bone loss, doctors need to be able to watch for indicators of osteoporosis in patients, one of those being estrogen levels in women. This can’t be done if sex is eliminated,” Smith says.
She adds that there are many diseases tied to a person’s sex or occur more often among a certain gender: prostate cancer in men, ovarian cancer in women, kidney stones in men, to name a few.
“Medical practice should be based on the pursuit of facts to help people live healthier lives, it should not be based on the political hot topic of the month and if these reports are true, we will take every action available to ensure that research and care are not hindered due to politically motivated pseudoscientists,” Smith asserts.
