Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a series of bills intended “to protect Florida’s children,” including prohibiting minors from attending sexually explicit events and protecting them from undergoing body-deforming procedures in an attempt to look more like the opposite sex.

The Republican governor signed the Let Kids Be Kids bill package Wednesday, which included SB 254, which bans the prescribing of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children and castration or elective mastectomies on children suffering from temporary confusion about their gender. The bill also requires informed consent for adults undergoing the same procedures.

Under the bill, Florida courts will have temporary emergency jurisdiction if a child is abandoned, threatened with abuse or is facing pressure to alter their body through drugs or surgeries. The new law also makes it easier for adults who underwent body-altering procedures as a child and suffered harm as a result to sue the doctors who performed those procedures.

“Florida is proud to lead the way in standing up for our children,” DeSantis said. “As the world goes mad, Florida represents a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy.”

Mat Staver, founder and chairman of the Christian ministry and nonprofit legal organization Liberty Counsel, released a statement in support of the legislative package approved by DeSantis. “This expansive bill package protects our children’s precious innocence from corrosive gender ideology. Gov. Ron...

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