If You Think Gender-Affirming Care Is Just For Trans People ... I'm Proof That Isn't True
1 year, 4 months ago

If You Think Gender-Affirming Care Is Just For Trans People ... I'm Proof That Isn't True

Huff Post  

The author was surprised to realize how intensely she felt about the choice to have optional reconstruction surgery Photo Courtesy Of Francesca Sternfeld At 25 years old, I found out that my breasts could be a ticking time bomb. Gender-affirming care usually refers to health care services that affirm a person’s gender identity when it conflicts with the gender they were assigned at birth. Trans people aren’t alone in seeking medical care that affirms their gender, but they are treated differently when it comes to obtaining it. Research consistently shows that rates of depression, anxiety and suicidality are higher among trans people, and that gender-affirming surgeries show remarkable success in improving the health outcomes of those who get them. The notion that my mastectomy and elective breast implants are lauded as “brave” while trans people seeking gender-affirming care are questioned, shamed and even criminalized is not only illogical, it’s immoral.

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Conservative Justices Signal Skepticism In Case About Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Conservative Justices Signal Skepticism In Case About Gender-Affirming Care For Minors

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court’s conservative majority expressed skepticism about a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth during oral arguments on Wednesday, in what experts say is the most important transgender rights case the court has ever heard. The law is meant to encourage minors to “appreciate their sex” and prohibits doctors from prescribing …

U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to state ban on gender-affirming care
2 weeks, 5 days ago

U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to state ban on gender-affirming care

Raw Story  

by Chris Lefkow The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a challenge to a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors, a case with repercussions for similar state prohibitions across the country. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, in a brief with the Supreme Court, said the state law is intended to "protect minors from the life-altering risks of …

Conservatives appear skeptical of challenge to Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors
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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Conservatives appear skeptical of challenge to Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors

Politico  

Opponents of the Tennessee law framed their arguments around Gorsuch’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, contending that denying certain medicines to adolescents based on their sex amounted to discrimination and required strong justification from state officials. With the court’s three liberals all appearing to support the plaintiffs challenging the Tennessee law, Gorsuch’s vote alone would not be enough …

States that have passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth
54 years, 11 months ago

States that have passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

CNN  

CNN — Twenty-six states have passed bans on gender-affirming health care for transgender children and teenagers, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank that advocates for LGBTQ rights. After the first gender-affirming care ban for minors became law in 2021, a flurry of states passed similar measures. While 19 states passed …

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

What medical care for transgender minors is at stake in Supreme Court case?
3 weeks ago

What medical care for transgender minors is at stake in Supreme Court case?

Associated Press  

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people under age 18. Here’s a look at what’s typically involved: Evaluation and diagnosis happen first Young people who persistently identify as a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth are often referred to clinics where teams from various …

Trans telehealth providers of gender-affirming care, like Folx and Plume, claim to be building the community. But are they?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Trans telehealth providers of gender-affirming care, like Folx and Plume, claim to be building the community. But are they?

Slate  

Not every doctor’s office runs an Instagram account that posts tips about how to approach sex with trans people alongside updates about which insurance it accepts. Indeed, trans people’s status as a convenient political bludgeon has made an already precarious path to health care even more treacherous. Jerrica Kirkley, Plume’s co-founder and chief medical officer, told me that the startup’s …

Medics treating trans patients do not need to know their gender identity, doctors say
5 months ago

Medics treating trans patients do not need to know their gender identity, doctors say

The Telegraph  

Published in the journal Anaesthesia, the guidance sets out 15 recommendations for the care of transgender people before and after general surgery, which could include routine operations on hips, broken bones, or bumps and lumps. Pre-assessment questionnaire The paper said there is “currently no existing guidance covering the scope and focus of this document”, and that it covers “the specific …

The conservative doctor who’s got the GOP’s ear on trans kids’ care
5 months ago

The conservative doctor who’s got the GOP’s ear on trans kids’ care

Politico  

“Our goal right from the beginning was to have an effect,” Goldfarb told POLITICO. “We’ve done that.” Goldfarb has also raised millions of dollars for his cause since he founded Do No Harm in 2022, capitalizing on the polarization that has gripped health care since public health officials warred with then-President Donald Trump and GOP governors over how to handle …

‘We’ve created medical refugees.’ LGBTQ+ healthcare workers fight for gender-affirming care amid rise in anti-trans laws
5 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We’ve created medical refugees.’ LGBTQ+ healthcare workers fight for gender-affirming care amid rise in anti-trans laws

LA Times  

Nico Olalia had just finished her initial nurse training in the Philippines when she realized her aspirations were growing bigger than her home archipelago. “We’ve created medical refugees who have to leave their state to get that care,” said U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, the first transgender person confirmed by the Senate to a high government post. Mack …

Things to know about the gender-affirming care case as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Things to know about the gender-affirming care case as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in

Associated Press  

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear arguments on the constitutionality of state bans on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Gender-affirming care includes a range of medical and mental health services to support a person’s gender identity, including when it’s different from the sex they were assigned at birth. The gender-affirming care legislation is a major part …

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 …

It’s Much Harder And More Expensive To Get Gender-Affirming Care Than Ever Before: Report
8 months, 2 weeks ago

It’s Much Harder And More Expensive To Get Gender-Affirming Care Than Ever Before: Report

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Families of transgender youth in the South have to spend much more time and money to access gender-affirming care than they used to because of anti-trans legislation that has been passed in the last two years, according to a new report from the Campaign for Southern Equality. Two dozen states, predominantly in the South, have passed bans …

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied

LA Times  

Mack Allen, 18, attends a rally for LGBTQ+ youth at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., on Jan. 31. That law and others introduced around the nation this year — often labeled as “bills of rights” for women — are part of a push by conservatives who say states have a legitimate interest in restricting transgender people from competing on sports …

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for sideways glances, questioning looks and snide comments whenever he has to hand over his driver’s license, which still identifies him as female. That law and others introduced around the nation this year — often labeled as “bills of rights” for women — are part of a …

Republicans Attacked This Issue All Year — And 2024 Could Be A Tipping Point
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Republicans Attacked This Issue All Year — And 2024 Could Be A Tipping Point

Huff Post  

Almost every morning, Christynne Lili Wrene Wood goes to her water aerobics class at the YMCA. “That’s really kind where we’re at right now.” Advocates told HuffPost that the current attacks on LGBTQ+ people, and particularly trans people, are rooted in a broader right-wing push towards a white Christian ideological agenda. Last fall, the state’s attorney general sought the private …

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 …

States that protect transgender health care now try to absorb demand
1 year, 4 months ago

States that protect transgender health care now try to absorb demand

Associated Press  

States that declared themselves refuges for transgender people have essentially issued an invitation: Get your gender-affirming health care here without fearing prosecution at home. The teen, who said they’re “escaping Texas in the nick of time,” said California’s protection for gender-affirming care was one of the main factors in their decision on where to go for college. “That’s what we’re …

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 …

Medical exiles: families flee states amid crackdown on transgender care
1 year, 5 months ago

Medical exiles: families flee states amid crackdown on transgender care

Salon  

Hal Dempsey wanted to "escape Missouri." Missouri, Florida, and Texas are among at least 20 states that have limited components of gender-affirming health care for trans youth. The day after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sought to limit access to gender-affirming health care for transgender people of all ages this spring, Hal Dempsey launched a GoFundMe fundraiser for themself and …

Louisiana lawmakers overturn governor’s veto on gender-affirming care ban for transgender minors
1 year, 5 months ago

Louisiana lawmakers overturn governor’s veto on gender-affirming care ban for transgender minors

Associated Press  

— Louisiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature overturned Democratic Gov. Like statehouses across the country, for the last three months Louisiana lawmakers have heard and held debates over gender-affirming care — something that has been available in the United States for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations. This is the second successful override — the only other being …

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 …

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 …

Controversial Texas law puts transgender youth's healthcare at stake, triggering legal fights - What you need to know
1 year, 6 months ago

Controversial Texas law puts transgender youth's healthcare at stake, triggering legal fights - What you need to know

Hindustan Times  

Texas recently passed legislation that addresses the provision of medical care to minors. Texas enacts controversial law on medical care for minors, stirring debates and legal challenges. Response and potential legal actions: Texas stands resolute in its unwavering stance against gender-affirming care for minors, even in the face of legal opposition. Despite the American Medical Association's objection, subversive advocacy groups …

Transgender adults in Florida are blindsided that a new law also limits their access to health care
1 year, 6 months ago

Transgender adults in Florida are blindsided that a new law also limits their access to health care

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Debate surrounding Florida’s new restrictions on gender-affirming care focused largely on transgender children. 58fbc000ce804bee9af2d56b64bae6b5 The new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors also mandates that adult patients seeking trans health care sign an informed consent form. “For trans adults, it’s devastating,” said Kate Steinle, chief clinical officer at FOLX Health, which provides gender-affirming care to trans …

Republican-controlled committee rejects Louisiana bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 6 months ago

Republican-controlled committee rejects Louisiana bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

— Bucking the trend of other reliably red states adopting restrictions on young transgender people, a Republican-controlled Louisiana legislative committee voted Wednesday to a kill a bill that would have banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Proponents of Louisiana’s failed bill, which would have prohibited hormone treatments, gender-affirming surgery or puberty-blocking drugs for any transgender minor, say they fear …

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 …

Review finds no misconduct at Missouri trans youth clinic
1 year, 8 months ago

Review finds no misconduct at Missouri trans youth clinic

Associated Press  

— A Missouri university said Friday that an internal review has found allegations of improper care at a center for young transgender patients were “unsubstantiated,” after a former employee made claims of poor treatment — leading the state’s attorney general to investigate. Washington University’s eight-week review found “allegations of substandard care causing adverse outcomes for patients at the Center are …

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 …

Column: A transgender patient’s lawsuit against Kaiser is a front for the conservative war on LGBTQ rights
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: A transgender patient’s lawsuit against Kaiser is a front for the conservative war on LGBTQ rights

LA Times  

Chloe Cole speaks as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene looks on during a September news conference in support of Greene’s bill to prohibit gender-affirming healthcare to transgender people under 18. — Kellan Baker, Whitman-Walker Institute Cole’s legal complaint, filed Feb. 22 in San Joaquin County state court, accuses Kaiser doctors and other professionals of having railroaded her into gender reassignment treatment …

Lawmakers in GOP states target medical care for trans kids
1 year, 10 months ago

Lawmakers in GOP states target medical care for trans kids

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Republican attacks on gender affirming medical care for young people continued Wednesday in several conservative states that are among more than two dozen considering similar bans nationwide. Lawmakers in Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Dakota considered bills Wednesday that would prohibit gender affirming treatments, like the use of puberty-blocking drugs and hormones, despite the endorsement of such treatments …

Lawmakers in GOP states target medical care for trans kids
1 year, 10 months ago

Lawmakers in GOP states target medical care for trans kids

LA Times  

State Sen. John Fredrickson, the first openly gay man elected to the Nebraska Legislature, speaks before a crowd on Feb. 8, 2023, at the state Capitol in Lincoln, Neb. Lawmakers in Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Dakota considered bills Wednesday that would prohibit gender affirming treatments, such as the use of puberty-blocking drugs and hormones, despite the endorsement of such treatments …

West Virginia lawmakers advance ban on gender-affirming care
1 year, 10 months ago

West Virginia lawmakers advance ban on gender-affirming care

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia lawmakers in the House Judiciary Committee voted Monday to add a ban on hormone therapy to a bill prohibiting gender-affirming surgery for minors before advancing the legislation to the full House of Delegates. One Democratic lawmaker said the legislation “bullies people.” Republicans in support of the legislation insisted that they don’t want to harm transgender …

Mississippi House OKs ban on minors’ gender-confirming care
1 year, 11 months ago

Mississippi House OKs ban on minors’ gender-confirming care

Associated Press  

— The Republican-controlled Mississippi House voted Thursday to ban gender-confirming care for minors, joining about a dozen other conservative states in trying to restrict health care access for young transgender people. Bain said he thinks Mississippi should restrict hormones or surgeries for young transgender people because some of them might regret the treatment when they are older. “What are we …

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 …

Trans inmates need access to gender-affirming care. Often they have to sue to get it
2 years, 1 month ago

Trans inmates need access to gender-affirming care. Often they have to sue to get it

NPR  

Trans inmates need access to gender-affirming care. Gender-affirming care can include "puberty suppression, hormone therapy, and gender-affirming surgeries among others," according to the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Sponsor Message Civil rights groups, such as Lambda Legal and the ACLU, have been involved in lawsuits in recent years on behalf of transgender inmates struggling to access gender-affirming medical care. …

Florida begins rule-changing process to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth
2 years, 4 months ago

Florida begins rule-changing process to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth

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. On 5 August, the board agreed to a …

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 …

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis moves to ban transgender youth and Medicaid recipients from all transition care
2 years, 6 months ago

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis moves to ban transgender youth and Medicaid recipients from all transition care

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 Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The administration of Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has asked …

Florida’s Health Department says transgender young people should not receive any gender-affirming care
2 years, 8 months ago

Florida’s Health Department says transgender young people should not receive any gender-affirming care

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 Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Florida’s Department of Health has issued guidance against gender-affirming care …

A third of trans youth are at risk of losing gender-affirming care, study says
2 years, 9 months ago

A third of trans youth are at risk of losing gender-affirming care, study says

NPR  

A third of trans youth are at risk of losing gender-affirming care, study says Enlarge this image toggle caption Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images The recent wave of Republican-led bans attempting to block transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming medical care may be fertile political ground for conservatives in an election year, but a new study …

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