North Dakota governor signs law limiting trans health care
1 year, 8 months ago

North Dakota governor signs law limiting trans health care

Associated Press  

North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed a bill into law that restricts transgender health care in the state, immediately making it a crime to give gender-affirming care to people younger than 18. Gender-affirming care for minors has been available in the U.S. for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations, but it has increasingly come under attack in many conservative legislatures, including North Dakota’s, where lawmakers have passed at least three anti-trans bills this year. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Dakota denounced the new law as “a vast government overreach that undermines the fundamental rights of parents” and that violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection and due process by singling out gender-affirming care for prohibition. “This ban won’t stop North Dakotans from being trans, but it will deny them critical support that helps struggling transgender youth grow up to become thriving transgender adults.” Earlier this month, Burgum also signed a transgender athlete ban into law after it similarly passed the House and Senate with veto-proof majorities.

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House Passes Defense Bill That Strips Health Care From Military Families’ Trans Kids
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House Passes Defense Bill That Strips Health Care From Military Families’ Trans Kids

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill on Wednesday that authorizes funding for the military — with a last-minute GOP provision to strip health care from military families’ transgender kids tucked into it. It’s buried on page 399: “Medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization may not be provided to a …

Montana Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling that allows gender-affirming care for minors
1 week, 5 days ago

Montana Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling that allows gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

— A Montana law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors will remain temporarily blocked, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, after justices unanimously agreed with a lower court judge who found the law likely violates the state’s constitutional right to privacy. “In upholding the district court’s flawed decision to temporarily block a duly enacted law, the Supreme Court put …

"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"
2 weeks ago

"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"

Salon  

The Supreme Court last week appeared likely to support a contentious Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors after more than two hours of oral argument in one of the most pivotal cases for transgender rights in the nation's history. "We think it would be sufficient for the Court to recognize that a law that on its face says you …

Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. Here's how they're preparing
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Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. Here's how they're preparing

NPR  

Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. toggle caption GROUND Media/GROUND Media "Many in our community, particularly trans people and their families, are filled with anxiety and fear about what a second Trump presidency could bring," says Ash Lazarus Orr, with Advocates for Trans Equality. Sponsor Message Another proposal during Trump's first term — which intended to strip "sex …

Supreme Court signals it will uphold 'state-sanctioned discrimination' in transgender care
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2 weeks, 5 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 …

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, 6 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 …

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on medical treatments for transgender minors
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on medical treatments for transgender minors

Associated Press  

Follow live updates and analysis on the Supreme Court’s hearing on a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer warned a decision favorable to Tennessee also could be used to justify nationwide restrictions on transgender healthcare for minors. The Biden administration and the families and health care providers …

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 …

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban gender-affirming care for trans minors
3 weeks ago

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban gender-affirming care for trans minors

Salon  

The Supreme Court is set to hear one of the most important trans rights cases in history on Wednesday, with the nation's highest court set to decide whether a state-level ban on gender-affirming care for minors is an unconstitutional form of sex discrimination. In defending its ban, the state of Tennessee has repeatedly cited the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, …

Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?

LA Times  

The conservative Supreme Court is poised to leap into another culture-war battle between red states and blue states, this time involving medical rights of transgender teens and their parents. Biden’s Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth Prelogar told the court “there is broad consensus in the field that adolescents who have reached the early stages of puberty and have experienced gender dysphoria over …

Missouri ban on gender-affirming care for minors upheld by judge
4 weeks ago

Missouri ban on gender-affirming care for minors upheld by judge

CNN  

CNN — A Missouri judge upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors Monday, a victory for opponents of the practice in a continuing nationwide battle over transgender issues. The 2023 law known as Senate Bill 49 prohibits the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery in people under the age of 18 to treat gender dysphoria, defined …

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

Trans People Prepare For Trump’s Second Term
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Trans People Prepare For Trump’s Second Term

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING On the night of the election, Red Broadwell was home with his cat in Wilmington, North Carolina, working on his master’s thesis about transness and body horror in film. It sucks that every time there’s an election, I have to ask, ‘What’s going to happen to me and my friends?’” After Trump’s victory, trans people across the …

Minnesota clinics are figuring out how to best care for out-of-state trans patients : NPR
2 months ago

Minnesota clinics are figuring out how to best care for out-of-state trans patients : NPR

NPR  

Minnesota clinics are figuring out how to best care for out-of-state trans patients Doctors and clinics in Minnesota are building up capacity to care for out-of-state trans patients who are traveling for care. SIMMONS-DUFFIN: They feel like they need to spread the knowledge on how to do this because patients from around the region are now flooding into Minnesota, says …

Megyn Kelly has a meltdown over Taylor Swift backing Harris–Walz
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Megyn Kelly has a meltdown over Taylor Swift backing Harris–Walz

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North Dakota judge strikes down the state’s abortion ban
3 months, 1 week ago

North Dakota judge strikes down the state’s abortion ban

LA Times  

A state judge struck down North Dakota’s ban on abortion Thursday, saying that the state constitution creates a fundamental right to access abortion before a fetus is viable. The judge acknowledged in his ruling that in the past, the North Dakota courts had relied on federal court precedents on abortion, but said those state precedents had been “upended” by the …

Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion

Associated Press  

— A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming health care for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, a majority of the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled Friday. The state’s high court acknowledged in its ruling that abortion and gender-affirming care “are distinct types of medical …

Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion

LA Times  

Activists at the Nebraska state Capitol in Lincoln protest a bill last year that combined proposed restriction on abortion and gender-affirming care for people under 19. A Nebraska law that combined abortion restrictions with another measure to limit gender-affirming healthcare for minors does not violate a state constitutional amendment requiring bills to stick to a single subject, a majority of …

New Hampshire Gov. Sununu signs bill banning transgender girls from girls’ sports
5 months ago

New Hampshire Gov. Sununu signs bill banning transgender girls from girls’ sports

Associated Press  

CONCORD, N.H. — Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire has signed a bill that would ban transgender athletes in grades 5-12 from teams that align with their gender identity, adding the state to nearly half in the nation that adopted similar measures. The bill passed by the Republican-led Legislature would require schools to designate all teams as either girls, …

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on youth gender transitions. It’s the largest state with such a law
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on youth gender transitions. It’s the largest state with such a law

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youths Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to decide on and seek medical care for their children. “We conclude the Legislature made a permissible, rational policy choice to limit the types of available medical procedures for children, particularly in light …

Texas Supreme Court upholds state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court upholds state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

CNN  

CNN — The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow the state’s ban on nearly all gender-affirming care for minors to remain in effect. LGBTQ advocacy groups slammed the ruling Friday, with Lambda Legal — one of the parties involved in the original lawsuit against the bill — saying, “It is impossible to overstate the devastating impact of this ruling.” …

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on youth gender transitions. It’s the largest state with such a law
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on youth gender transitions. It’s the largest state with such a law

LA Times  

LGBTQ+ activists protest the bill banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth at the Texas Capitol in Austin last year. The Texas Supreme Court upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youths Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to decide on and seek medical care for their children. “We conclude the Legislature made a …

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 …

A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender youth is thrown out by a federal judge
6 months, 1 week ago

A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender youth is thrown out by a federal judge

LA Times  

Ron DeSantis, speaking in January, signed the transgender care restrictions last year as he was gearing up for his presidential campaign, which was based largely on such culture wars. “I’m so relieved the court saw there is no medical basis for this law — it was passed just to target transgender people like me and try to push us out …

Judge won’t block North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for children
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge won’t block North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for children

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota law banning gender-affirming care for children will continue to be enforced pending a court challenge, but any kids whose treatments began before the law took effect in April 2023 can keep getting the care, according to a judge’s ruling released Wednesday. “The longer this law is allowed to remain in effect, the more North …

South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
7 months ago

South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. “Healthcare is a human right – and it breaks my heart to see lawmakers rip away life-affirming and often life-saving medical care from transgender youth in South Carolina. No one should be forced to leave their home state to access the care that they need and deserve,” Uplift Outreach Center Executive Director Raymond Velazquez …

Arkansas governor says state won’t comply with new federal rules on treatment of trans students
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Arkansas governor says state won’t comply with new federal rules on treatment of trans students

Associated Press  

Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared Thursday that the state won’t comply with a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools, joining other Republican-led states that are defying the new rules. The regulation finalized last month seeks to clarify Title IX, a landmark 1972 sex discrimination law originally passed to address women’s rights and …

West Virginia’s and North Carolina’s transgender care coverage policies discriminate, judges rule
7 months, 3 weeks ago

West Virginia’s and North Carolina’s transgender care coverage policies discriminate, judges rule

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government- The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 8-6 in the case involving coverage of gender-affirming care by North Carolina’s state employee health plan and the coverage of gender-affirming surgery by West Virginia Medicaid. Specifically, North Carolina’s policy bars treatment …

Tennessee lawmakers OK bill penalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Tennessee lawmakers OK bill penalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Statehouse on Thursday gave their final approval to legislation penalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent, clearing the way for the first-in-the-nation proposal to be sent to Gov. “At the end of the day, parents should have final say what medical procedures their children are receiving, and nobody else.” The Human …

U.S. Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Idaho's Ban On Gender-Affirming Care On Transgender Minors
8 months ago

U.S. Supreme Court Temporarily Allows Idaho's Ban On Gender-Affirming Care On Transgender Minors

Live Law  

The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily allowed the US state of Idaho to enforce a ban on gender-affirming treatment for minors, pending further legal proceedings. The law, known as the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, prohibits medical professionals from providing gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers, hormones, and surgeries, to individuals under 18 years old. Idaho officials appealed to the U.S. Supreme …

Supreme Court Allows Idahos Ban On Transgender Youth Care
8 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Allows Idahos Ban On Transgender Youth Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. Under the court’s order, the two transgender teens who sued to challenge the law still will be able to obtain care. The law’s backers have said it is necessary to …

Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth
8 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. Lawyers for the teens wrote in court papers that the teens’ “gender dysphoria has been dramatically alleviated as a result of puberty blockers and estrogen therapy.” The American Civil Liberties Union, representing the …

Kansas governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for minors and 2 anti-abortion bills
8 months, 1 week ago

Kansas governor vetoes ban on gender-affirming care for minors and 2 anti-abortion bills

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ governor on Friday vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors, a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she called a “vague” bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion. In rejecting an attempt to have Kansas join at least 24 other states in banning or restricting …

Federal appeals court hears arguments on nation’s first ban on gender-affirming care for minors
8 months, 1 week ago

Federal appeals court hears arguments on nation’s first ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

ST. LOUIS — Arguments before a federal appeals court that is considering whether to reinstate Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors focused Thursday on whether it and similar restrictions adopted by two dozen states discriminate on the basis of sex. Judge David Stras, who was appointed to the court by former President Donald Trump, asked attorneys on both …

As Kansas nears gender care ban, students push university to advocate for trans youth
8 months, 3 weeks ago

As Kansas nears gender care ban, students push university to advocate for trans youth

Associated Press  

LAWRENCE, Kan. — With Kansas poised to ban gender-affirming care for minors, college students are trying to counter Republican efforts to roll back transgender rights by pushing the state’s largest university to declare itself a haven for trans youth. Their goal wasn’t to create a confrontation between the university and the Legislature that could fuel a budget-cutting backlash, they said, …

Lawsuit says Ohio’s gender-affirming care ban violates the state constitution
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Lawsuit says Ohio’s gender-affirming care ban violates the state constitution

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two families of transgender minors filed a constitutional challenge on Tuesday to an Ohio law that severely limits gender-affirming health care for youth under 18. We will fight in court to ensure that trans youth and their parents can access critically important, lifesaving healthcare without government intrusion.” DeWine vetoed the law Dec. 29, after touring the state …

Using public funds or facilities for gender-affirming care banned by GOP-led Idaho Legislature
9 months ago

Using public funds or facilities for gender-affirming care banned by GOP-led Idaho Legislature

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — The GOP-led Idaho Legislature has passed a bill that would ban the use of any public funds for gender-affirming care, including for state employees using work health insurance and for adults covered by Medicaid. If the legislation is enacted, Idaho would become at least the 10th state to ban Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care for people of …

Idaho considers a ban on using public funds or facilities for gender-affirming care
9 months ago

Idaho considers a ban on using public funds or facilities for gender-affirming care

The Independent  

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Things to know about developments impacting LGBTQ+ rights across the US
9 months, 1 week ago

Things to know about developments impacting LGBTQ+ rights across the US

Associated Press  

A legal settlement in Florida, legislative action in Arkansas and a lawsuit in Georgia this week made waves in an ongoing national battle over the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans. FLORIDA AGREES STUDENTS, TEACHERS CAN SAY ‘GAY’ Florida this week settled a legal challenge to its 2022 law that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools, a …

Kansas is close to banning gender-affirming care for minors as GOP leaders seek the last vote
9 months, 1 week ago

Kansas is close to banning gender-affirming care for minors as GOP leaders seek the last vote

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Republican legislators in Kansas are close to banning gender-affirming care for minors over the Democratic governor’s expected veto after winning over previously skeptical GOP colleagues, fueling fears that success will encourage further attempts to roll back transgender rights. Kansas lawmakers attempted to pass a ban last year, but GOP supporters in the Senate failed to override Kelly’s …

Georgia restricted transgender care for youth in 2023. Now Republicans are seeking an outright ban
9 months, 1 week ago

Georgia restricted transgender care for youth in 2023. Now Republicans are seeking an outright ban

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A year ago, Georgia lawmakers said they were striking a balance when they banned most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18, but let doctors continue prescribing puberty blockers and let minors then receiving hormone replacement therapies continue. Watson, a physician, had said last year that allowing the use of puberty blockers was a …

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 …

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors
11 months ago

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Hindustan Times  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A proposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors was overwhelmingly approved Wednesday by the Republican-led South Carolina House. COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday debated proposed restrictions on health care for transgender youth, while a Missouri legislative committee discussed a slew of like-minded proposals. Democratic South Carolina Rep. Marvin Pendarvis said Republicans should stick …

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Missouri panel sees similar bills
11 months ago

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Missouri panel sees similar bills

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Republican-led South Carolina House overwhelmingly approved a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors on Wednesday, while a Missouri legislative committee discussed a slew of like-minded proposals. But Republican South Carolina Rep. John McCravy, a co-sponsor of the bill, said Wednesday that “unpublished evidence” shows puberty blockers increase self-harm and decried the banned treatments as irreversible. …

Efforts to restrict transgender health care endure in 2024, with more adults targeted
11 months, 1 week ago

Efforts to restrict transgender health care endure in 2024, with more adults targeted

Associated Press  

Republican-led state legislatures are considering a new round of bills restricting medical care for transgender youths — and in some cases, adults — returning to the issue the year after a wave of high-profile bills became law and sparked lawsuits. Last year’s limits included a Florida law that has made it nearly impossible for many transgender adults in the state …

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 …

“Flood” of anti-LGBTQ bills shows GOP wants to “eradicate trans people from public life”: advocate
11 months, 2 weeks ago

“Flood” of anti-LGBTQ bills shows GOP wants to “eradicate trans people from public life”: advocate

Salon  

A bill that would have restricted healthcare access for transgender and gender expansive youth in Ohio was vetoed by the governor last week. HB 68 "actively harms trans, non-binary, gender expansive and intersex youth and young adults across Ohio," Rhea Debussy, a lecturer of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University at Newark, told Salon. Per the …

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