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Florida’s medical board affirms law requiring written consent for pelvic exams (good), but they say it only applies to women (huh?)

A new state law aimed at protecting patients from unwanted pelvic exams does not apply to people who are “biologically male,” according to a state medical board. The Florida Board of Medicine, which regulates physicians, issued an eight-page order designed to clarify the law, which prohibits health-care practitioners and medical students from performing pelvic examinations […]

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