Trans kids' treatment can start younger, new guidelines say
2 years, 6 months ago

Trans kids' treatment can start younger, new guidelines say

Hindustan Times  

A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex hormones and surgeries. Trans kids' treatment can start younger, new guidelines say The World Professional Association for Transgender Health said hormones could be started at age 14, two years earlier than the group’s previous advice, and some surgeries done at age 15 or 17, a year or so earlier than previous guidance. “I’m so much happier now.’’ In South Carolina, where a proposed law would ban transgender treatments for kids under age 18, Eli Bundy has been waiting to get breast removal surgery since age 15. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association support allowing kids to seek transgender medical treatment, but they don’t offer age-specific guidance. Dr. Joel Frader, a Northwestern University a pediatrician and medical ethicist who advises a gender treatment program at Chicago’s Lurie Children’s Hospital, said guidelines should rely on psychological readiness, not age.

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Trans lobby group threatens to help break puberty blockers ban by exploiting loopholes
2 days, 19 hours ago

Trans lobby group threatens to help break puberty blockers ban by exploiting loopholes

Daily Mail  

Campaigners demanded an urgent review of the puberty blockers ban last night over a trans lobby group’s offer to help children exploit loopholes. Hours after they were permanently banned by the Government last week, Anne Trans Health started offering youngsters ‘legal, compassionate and supportive routes’ to access the body-altering hormones, which halt development into adulthood. Activists protesting outside Health Secretary …

Wes Streeting’s puberty blockers ban will force transgender kids to go to France for treatment
1 week, 4 days ago

Wes Streeting’s puberty blockers ban will force transgender kids to go to France for treatment

The Independent  

Trans people in the UK face a pragmatic choice: to co-operate with what is regarded as a hostile Labour administration for the good that can be achieved for trans people or to protest what is regarded as the latest insult. Yesterday, the health secretary, Wes Streeting, confirmed as permanent the ban on the use of puberty blockers for trans youth …

Supreme Court signals it will uphold 'state-sanctioned discrimination' in transgender care
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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Supreme Court signals it will uphold 'state-sanctioned discrimination' in transgender care

Raw Story  

Attorneys who argued against Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming healthcare at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed hope that the court's nine justices will take "the opportunity to affirm the essential freedom and equality of all people before the law," while reports indicated that the right-wing majority is inclined to uphold the ban. "We ask the Supreme Court to commit …

How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide
2 weeks, 6 days ago

How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide

CNN  

CNN — When Tennessee banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth last year, Sarah began taking days off work to drive hundreds of miles from her home in Nashville to a North Carolina clinic that could treat her transgender son. Parents like Sarah and transgender communities across the United States will be paying close attention Wednesday as the US Supreme Court …

A Missouri judge says a law banning surgery, medications for transgender minors is constitutional
3 weeks, 6 days ago

A Missouri judge says a law banning surgery, medications for transgender minors is constitutional

Associated Press  

— A Missouri court on Monday upheld a new state law that bans some gender-affirming health care for minors, a victory for supporters of the ban as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case on the issue next week. Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a statement that Missouri is the “first state in the nation to successfully …

Researcher’s fears of ‘weaponized’ data reignite focus on puberty-blocking drugs for transgender youth
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Researcher’s fears of ‘weaponized’ data reignite focus on puberty-blocking drugs for transgender youth

CNN  

CNN — The benefits of puberty-blocking drugs for transgender children are drawing fresh attention after the scientist leading a major federally funded study was quoted by The New York Times as saying she had delayed publication of some of her results because of fears that they would be “weaponized” in a heated political climate. Olson-Kennedy said that in the study, …

Supreme Court will decide if states may prohibit hormones for transgender teens
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Supreme Court will decide if states may prohibit hormones for transgender teens

LA Times  

People attend a rally as part of a Transgender Day of Visibility by the Capitol in Washington in 2023. In the last three years, however, many Republican-led states have enacted laws that forbid medical treatments intended to help youths under 18 transition to what the measures describe as a “purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex.” The Biden administration, the …

Americans deeply divided on issues involving queer children, poll shows
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Americans deeply divided on issues involving queer children, poll shows

LA Times  

Carrie Howell, who lives in rural Georgia, is the mother of a bisexual 13-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old boy whose car seat is his favorite color: pink. There’s now a new queer character “every time you turn on the TV,” she said, and kids are being swept up into thinking that being LGBTQ+ — and transgender in particular — is …

Youth transgender care policies should be driven by science
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Youth transgender care policies should be driven by science

Salon  

In the U.S., 23 states have passed legislation to ban medicalized care for minors with gender dysphoria, or the experience of distress that can occur when a person’s gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Such care can include puberty blockers, which are medications that suppress the body's production of sex hormones, and cross-sex hormones …

A major UK report says trans children are being let down by toxic debate and lack of evidence
8 months, 1 week ago

A major UK report says trans children are being let down by toxic debate and lack of evidence

Associated Press  

LONDON — Children who question their gender identity are being let down by lack of evidence and a toxic political debate, according to a report Wednesday from a senior doctor in England. Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a …

A major UK report says trans children are being let down by toxic debate and lack of evidence
8 months, 1 week ago

A major UK report says trans children are being let down by toxic debate and lack of evidence

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dr. Hilary Cass said there …

‘No good evidence’ for gender care for youth over long term, review finds
8 months, 1 week ago

‘No good evidence’ for gender care for youth over long term, review finds

Al Jazeera  

Study commissioned by England’s health service says hormones should only be prescribed to teens with ‘extreme caution’. The evidence behind medical intervention for youth questioning their gender is “remarkably weak”, with some doctors abandoning “normal clinical approaches” to prescribe hormones to teens, a landmark review in the United Kingdom has found. There was also no evidence that puberty blockers “buy …

‘We can now wake up from this nightmare’: Has the turning point in the trans debate finally come?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We can now wake up from this nightmare’: Has the turning point in the trans debate finally come?

The Telegraph  

Carolyn’s daughter was only 13 when she asked to be referred to the Tavistock clinic to begin the process of changing her gender. In that time, the NHS’s Gender Identity Development Service, based at the Tavistock clinic in London, has been shut down in one of the biggest scandals in British medical history and the NHS has announced a review …

Children must not be rushed to change gender, report warns
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Children must not be rushed to change gender, report warns

The Telegraph  

Children who believe they are transgender may actually have mental health issues, a landmark report is set to find this week. It comes amid concern that children are being allowed to change gender in school without their parents’ knowledge or consent, and after the routine prescription of puberty blockers was banned by NHS England. “We’ve also said there’s more to …

Gender-affirming trans health care bans are going to destroy relationships between parents and their kids.
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Gender-affirming trans health care bans are going to destroy relationships between parents and their kids.

Slate  

Last year, a staggering 22 states across the U.S. banned gender-affirming care for minors. When I wrote the first draft of the book in 2021, Virginia’s governor was still a Democrat, and no state in the nation had yet banned trans medical care. Parents can remember a time, not too long ago, when their kids were babies, and on bad …

South Carolina Republicans back trans youth health care ban despite pushback from parents, doctors
11 months, 1 week ago

South Carolina Republicans back trans youth health care ban despite pushback from parents, doctors

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Pleas from transgender children’s pediatricians and parents to keep allowing such kids to receive hormone therapies failed to stop Republican lawmakers from advancing a ban on those treatments to the South Carolina House floor on Wednesday. The bill would bar health professionals from performing gender transition surgery, prescribing puberty-blocking drugs and overseeing hormone therapy for anyone under …

Dozens of under-5s have been referred to the controversial NHS transgender service as officials consider introducing a minimum age for referrals
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Dozens of under-5s have been referred to the controversial NHS transgender service as officials consider introducing a minimum age for referrals

Daily Mail  

More than 70 children aged three and four have been sent to the controversial NHS transgender clinic, it can be revealed. Over 70 children aged three and four have been sent to the NHS Gender Identity Development Service Health Service bosses are now considering introducing a minimum age of seven for future patients The Government is trying to stop the …

More than 70 children aged three and four were sent to Tavistock transgender clinic
11 months, 3 weeks ago

More than 70 children aged three and four were sent to Tavistock transgender clinic

The Telegraph  

More than 70 children aged three and four were sent to the controversial Tavistock transgender clinic, statistics have shown. In total, 382 children aged six and under were referred to the Gender Identity Development Service run by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in north London. The clinic had no lower age limit on referrals and was shut down …

Teachers can’t be forced to use pupils’ chosen pronouns, says government
1 year ago

Teachers can’t be forced to use pupils’ chosen pronouns, says government

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Former Tory prime minister Liz Truss said it “doesn’t go …

Schools trans guidance to be published by Christmas
1 year, 1 month ago

Schools trans guidance to be published by Christmas

The Telegraph  

Schools will receive guidance on transgender pupils by Christmas, but it could be spring before the rules come into force. MPs have warned that without official guidance, schools have been forced to seek advice from third-party providers, which have arguably promoted radical gender ideology in classrooms. A report by the Policy Exchange think tank published in March found that schools …

Nebraska is imposing a 7-day wait for trans youth to start gender-affirming medications
1 year, 2 months ago

Nebraska is imposing a 7-day wait for trans youth to start gender-affirming medications

Associated Press  

Nebraska is requiring transgender youth seeking gender-affirming care to wait seven days to start puberty blocking medications or hormone treatments under emergency regulations announced Sunday by the state health department. A new law that took effect Sunday bans gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth under 19 and also required the state’s chief medical officer to spell out when and how those …

Some providers are dropping gender-affirming care for kids even in cases where it’s legal
1 year, 3 months ago

Some providers are dropping gender-affirming care for kids even in cases where it’s legal

Associated Press  

ST. LOUIS — As Republican-led states have rushed to ban gender-affirming for minors, some families with transgender children found a bit of solace: At least they lived in states that would allow those already receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy to continue. “It was a completely crushing blow,” said Becky Hormuth, whose 16-year-old son was receiving treatment from the Washington …

Pediatricians’ group reaffirms support for gender-affirming care amid growing state restrictions
1 year, 4 months ago

Pediatricians’ group reaffirms support for gender-affirming care amid growing state restrictions

Associated Press  

The American Academy of Pediatrics reaffirmed its support for gender-affirming medical care for transgender children on Thursday, even as the treatments face a growing push for bans and restrictions from Republican lawmakers across the U.S. The board also voted to provide additional documents to support pediatricians, including clinical and technical reports, and to conduct an external review of research regarding …

Virginia finalizes guidance on transgender students, including rolling back some accommodations
1 year, 5 months ago

Virginia finalizes guidance on transgender students, including rolling back some accommodations

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration said Tuesday that it has finalized new policies on the treatment of transgender students, guidance that will direct school districts to roll back some current accommodations and increase parental notification requirements about certain discussions involving gender identity. The finalized version adds an “opt out” option for parents to request that their children …

Things to know about the latest court rulings and statehouse action over transgender rights
1 year, 5 months ago

Things to know about the latest court rulings and statehouse action over transgender rights

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. KANSAS ORDERED TO STOP ALLOWING …

Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need
1 year, 5 months ago

Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "Most parents are going through some kind of developmental …

Parents of transgender youth are suing to block Georgia’s gender-affirming care ban
1 year, 5 months ago

Parents of transgender youth are suing to block Georgia’s gender-affirming care ban

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Parents of four transgender children have filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law set to take effect Saturday that bans most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18. They argue the law “violates the fundamental rights of parents to make medical decisions to ensure the health and well-being of their children” and “violates the …

North Carolina lawmakers give final OK to ban on gender-affirming care for trans children
1 year, 5 months ago

North Carolina lawmakers give final OK to ban on gender-affirming care for trans children

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers finalized legislation on Wednesday that would prohibit certain gender-affirming care for children and prevent state funds from being used to provide such therapies and procedures. According to leading professional health associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the Endocrine Society, gender-affirming care is considered safe and medically necessary. Also …

Federal judge hears bid to block Indiana’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 6 months ago

Federal judge hears bid to block Indiana’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s Legislature trampled upon the rights of young transgender patients and their parents with a new law aiming to ban them from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries, an attorney told a federal judge Wednesday. The lawsuit says the ban violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection guarantees as well as federal laws regarding essential medical services, and …

Trans children need gender affirming care — and scientists say Republican bans hurt vulnerable kids
1 year, 6 months ago

Trans children need gender affirming care — and scientists say Republican bans hurt vulnerable kids

Salon  

The United States is an unbearably hostile place for transgender children, and the problem is only getting worse. "Gender affirming care is a very thorough, complex process of evaluating a child in the context of their own physical mental health" Take the American Academy of Pediatrics, the largest association of pediatricians in the United States and a group whose collective …

Transgender youth are suffering because of discriminatory politics. Here’s how to support these kids
1 year, 6 months ago

Transgender youth are suffering because of discriminatory politics. Here’s how to support these kids

LA Times  

This story was originally published in Group Therapy, a weekly newsletter answering questions sent by readers about what’s been weighing on their hearts and minds. I don’t know what’s left.” One reader asked how to support trans young people, even as right-wing legislators are making it harder to do so in large swaths of the country: “Given the wave of …

Trans rights groups pledge Texas lawsuit over gender-affirming care ban: ‘Anti-science, discriminatory fear-mongering’
1 year, 7 months ago

Trans rights groups pledge Texas lawsuit over gender-affirming care ban: ‘Anti-science, discriminatory fear-mongering’

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Texas – home to an estimated 30,000 trans …

For transgender kids, a frantic rush for treatment amid bans
1 year, 8 months ago

For transgender kids, a frantic rush for treatment amid bans

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — As a third grader in Utah, mandolin-playing math whiz Elle Palmer said aloud what she had only before sensed, telling a friend she planned to transfer schools the following year and hoped her new classmates would see her as a girl. “My body’s basically this ticking time bomb, just sitting there waiting for it to go …

For transgender kids, a frantic rush for treatment amid bans
1 year, 8 months ago

For transgender kids, a frantic rush for treatment amid bans

LA Times  

As a third-grader in Utah, mandolin-playing math whiz Elle Palmer said aloud what she had only before sensed, telling a friend she planned to transfer schools the following year and hoped her new classmates would see her as a girl. “My body’s basically this ticking time bomb, just sitting there waiting for it to go off,” said Asher Wilcox-Broekemeier, now …

Opinion: Gender-affirming care has a long history, though anti-trans laws pretend it’s ‘untested’
1 year, 8 months ago

Opinion: Gender-affirming care has a long history, though anti-trans laws pretend it’s ‘untested’

LA Times  

Some proposals aimed at blocking transgender people from accessing healthcare are so sweeping they could affect widely used treatments like hormonal birth control. When politicians today refer to gender-affirming care as new, “ untested ” or “ experimental,” they ignore the long history of transgender medicine in the United States. Gender stereotypes concerning the presence or absence of secondary sex …

Doctors question aspects of Missouri transgender care limits
1 year, 9 months ago

Doctors question aspects of Missouri transgender care limits

Associated Press  

Missouri’s attorney general has said he will issue an emergency regulation that at least temporarily puts strict limits on transgender medical treatment for youth. In the press release about the new rule, the attorney general’s office says patients must be told that using puberty blocker drugs or hormones to treat gender identity disorder is “experimental” and not approved by the …

Missouri to restrict gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 9 months ago

Missouri to restrict gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

— Missouri’s Republican attorney general on Monday said he will limit access to gender-affirming care for minors, sidestepping the GOP-led Senate as it struggles to pass a law banning the practice for children completely. “Research shows that discrimination has adverse effects on the health and well-being of transgender people.” The rule appears to be aimed at helping children who might …

Trans youth health care and media: What to understand about how the debate is covered.
1 year, 9 months ago

Trans youth health care and media: What to understand about how the debate is covered.

Slate  

Here are some things we know about gender-affirming health care: We know that the number of young patients being seen by gender clinics has increased, and that the gender balance of these young patients has changed, with more female-assigned youth seeking care. Something similar can be found in an article for the New York Times about teens who are accessing …

How common is transgender treatment regret, detransitioning?
1 year, 9 months ago

How common is transgender treatment regret, detransitioning?

Associated Press  

Many states have enacted or contemplated limits or outright bans on transgender medical treatment, with conservative U.S. lawmakers saying they are worried about young people later regretting irreversible body-altering treatment. In updated treatment guidelines issued last year, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health said evidence of later regret is scant, but that patients should be told about the possibility …

States target transgender health care in first bills of 2023
1 year, 11 months ago

States target transgender health care in first bills of 2023

Associated Press  

After a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year, Republican state lawmakers this year are zeroing in on questions of bodily autonomy with new proposals to limit gender-affirming health care and abortion access. Gender-affirming health care providers and parents of trans youths are the primary targets of these bills, many of which seek to criminalize helping a …

Most teens who start puberty suppression continue gender-affirming care, study finds
2 years, 1 month ago

Most teens who start puberty suppression continue gender-affirming care, study finds

NPR  

Most teens who start puberty suppression continue gender-affirming care, study finds Enlarge this image toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Eric Gay/AP A large majority of transgender adolescents who received puberty suppression treatment went on to continue gender-affirming treatment, a new study from the Netherlands has found. Sponsor Message The paper's data included people who started medical treatment in adolescence with puberty …

Children’s hospitals harassed over transgender care programs
2 years, 4 months ago

Children’s hospitals harassed over transgender care programs

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Doctors and other staffers at Boston Children’s Hospital are being threatened with violence over its surgical program for transgender youths, administrators said, and other U.S. children’s hospitals are also being harassed online. The Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition also condemned the attacks as baseless claims continuing an assault on trans youth and trans health care that is spreading across …

Gender transition treatment minimum age lowered to 14-years-old
2 years, 6 months ago

Gender transition treatment minimum age lowered to 14-years-old

Salon  

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has declared that the minimum age for gender transition treatment can now be lowered to 14, which is two years younger than previously advised. Along with that decrease in the age requirement for hormone treatments, the association has also moved to lower the minimum age for some gender reassignment surgeries to between 15 …

Trans kids’ treatment can start younger, new guidelines say
2 years, 6 months ago

Trans kids’ treatment can start younger, new guidelines say

LA Times  

Eli Bundy, 18, who identifies as nonbinary, supports updated guidance from an international transgender health group that recommends lower ages for some treatments. Starting treatment earlier allows transgender teens to experience physical puberty changes around the same time as other teens, said Dr. Eli Coleman, chair of the group’s standards of care and director of the University of Minnesota Medical …

Trans kids’ treatment can start younger, new guidelines say
2 years, 6 months ago

Trans kids’ treatment can start younger, new guidelines say

Associated Press  

A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex hormones and surgeries. Starting treatment earlier allows transgender teens to experience physical puberty changes around the same time as other teens, said Dr. Eli Coleman, chair of the group’s standards of care and director of the University of Minnesota Medical School’s human …

Op-Ed: Denying trans youth gender-affirming care is an affront to science and medical ethics
2 years, 6 months ago

Op-Ed: Denying trans youth gender-affirming care is an affront to science and medical ethics

LA Times  

Parents of transgender children and other supporters of transgender rights gather at the Texas Capitol in Austin in April 2021 to speak against anti-trans legislation. Greg Abbott’s attempt to treat gender-affirming care as “child abuse.” Although these rulings are important, they cannot counter state legislatures relying on toxic distortions and outright falsehoods about science to push anti-trans policy. What these …

Transgender youth treatment under fire in Florida again
2 years, 6 months ago

Transgender youth treatment under fire in Florida again

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida health officials have asked the state medical board to draft new policies that would likely restrict gender dysphoria treatments for transgender youth as the state amps up its ongoing attacks on the treatments amid the country’s culture wars. In a lengthy report dated Thursday, the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration said puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones …

Early transgender identity tends to endure, study suggests
2 years, 7 months ago

Early transgender identity tends to endure, study suggests

Associated Press  

Children who begin identifying as transgender at a young age tend to retain that identity at least for several years, a study published Wednesday suggests. Five years later, at the study’s end, 94% were living as transgender and almost two-thirds were using either puberty-blocking medication or sex hormones to medically transition. Politicians seeking to outlaw or criminalize medical treatment for …

Early transgender identity in kids tends to endure, study suggests
2 years, 7 months ago

Early transgender identity in kids tends to endure, study suggests

LA Times  

Parents of transgender children and other supporters of trans rights speak out at the Texas state Capitol. Five years later, at the study’s end, 94% were living as transgender and almost two-thirds were using either puberty-blocking medication or sex hormones to medically transition. Politicians seeking to outlaw or criminalize medical treatment for transgender youth have cited evidence suggesting that many …

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