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DeSANTIS: “We banned this administratively last year through our medical board, so if a medical doctor did this, they lose the license in Florida, which is appropriate, but we felt you had to do more. I mean, if you’re taking off the private parts of some 15-year-old kid, you should go to jail for that. This is just totally unacceptable. One of the things we did in that bill, though, is we're giving the victims the ability to sue the physician. So if you’ve gone through this as a 16-year-old or a 15-year-old, now you’re 24, 25, and you have all this irreversible damage, you bring suit against them because they violated the Hippocratic oath. They put their ideology ahead of evidence-based medicine, and we just think that’s fundamentally wrong in the state of Florida."