Bill to deny gender-affirming care for trans youth fails
3 years, 11 months ago

Bill to deny gender-affirming care for trans youth fails

Associated Press  

— The Montana House on Tuesday voted 51-49 against a bill that sought to penalize physicians who provide gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. Instead of stigmatizing and harming trans youth, our laws should support them.” Supporters argued the bill would protect minors from life-altering medical treatment they are not fully able to authorize. The House is also considering a bill, brought by Fuller, that would prohibit transgender youth from participating in school sports according to the gender with which they identify. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity, leading Democrats to raise concerns that the state’s federal education funding could be withheld if the bills become law.

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Fewer than 1 in 1,000 US adolescents receive gender-affirming medications, researchers find
1 week, 2 days ago

Fewer than 1 in 1,000 US adolescents receive gender-affirming medications, researchers find

Associated Press  

As U.S. lawmakers debate issues around health care for transgender youth, it’s been difficult to determine the number of young people receiving gender-affirming medications, leaving room for exaggerated and false claims. Fewer than 1 in 1,000 U.S. adolescents with commercial insurance received gender-affirming medications — puberty blockers or hormones — during a recent five-year period, according to the study released …

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

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 month 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 …

House GOP Uses Must-Pass Defense Bill To Strip Care From Military Families’ Trans Kids
1 month ago

House GOP Uses Must-Pass Defense Bill To Strip Care From Military Families’ Trans Kids

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — House Republicans have tucked a provision into a must-pass defense bill that would strip health care from military families’ transgender kids, putting parents in a position of having to choose between their careers in the military and providing medically necessary health care for their loved ones. It’s just one sentence: “Medical interventions for the treatment …

"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"
1 month 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
1 month, 1 week ago

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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1 month, 1 week 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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1 month, 1 week 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
1 month, 1 week 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
1 month, 1 week 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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1 month, 1 week 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
55 years 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 …

Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Trans Youth Health Care
1 month, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Trans Youth Health Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments for the most important transgender rights case it has ever reviewed — one that could have significant consequences on the future of lifesaving gender-affirming care for youth in the country. The Tennessee law, Senate Bill 1, encourages minors to “appreciate their sex” by prohibiting puberty blockers or hormone …

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban gender-affirming care for trans minors
1 month, 1 week 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, …

How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide
1 month, 1 week 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?
1 month, 1 week 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 …

Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?
1 month, 2 weeks 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 …

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people. “The stakes are high, of course, for transgender adolescents, but also for the parents who are watching their children suffer, who are just trying to do right by …

Missouri ban on gender-affirming care for minors upheld by judge
1 month, 3 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
1 month, 3 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
1 month, 3 weeks ago

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 …

Bill restricting school bathroom use by transgender students passes Ohio Senate, awaits governor’s signature
2 months ago

Bill restricting school bathroom use by transgender students passes Ohio Senate, awaits governor’s signature

CNN  

CNN — The Ohio Senate on Wednesday greenlit a measure that would ban transgender students from using locker rooms and bathrooms associated with their gender identities. The bill, titled the “Protect All Students Act,” would amend Ohio’s existing college credit program for high school students. “Senate Bill 104 is a cruel invasion of students’ rights to privacy, which could result …

Minnesota clinics are figuring out how to best care for out-of-state trans patients : NPR
2 months, 3 weeks 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 …

Nebraska Supreme Court upholds law restricting both medical care for transgender youth and abortion
5 months, 3 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 …

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

Trans Lawmakers Say White House’s Latest Comments About Trans Youth Are ‘Betrayal’
6 months, 1 week ago

Trans Lawmakers Say White House’s Latest Comments About Trans Youth Are ‘Betrayal’

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Several prominent LGBTQ+ advocates and a dozen transgender lawmakers have criticized the Biden administration for its recent statement that gender-affirming surgeries should only be allowed for transgender adults. Three years ago, during his first joint address to Congress, President Joe Biden sent a clear message to the trans community: “To all transgender Americans watching at home, especially …

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

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. Read our privacy policy The Texas Supreme Court upheld …

Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on youth gender transitions. It’s the largest state with such a law
6 months, 2 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 …

Texas Supreme Court upholds state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
6 months, 2 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.” …

Legal scholars worry Supreme Court may prioritize “politics” over “real stakes” in trans rights case
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Legal scholars worry Supreme Court may prioritize “politics” over “real stakes” in trans rights case

Salon  

The Supreme Court said Monday it will settle a legal battle over state bans of gender-affirming care in its next session, accepting for review what experts say could be one of the most pivotal cases for transgender rights — should the justices take the opportunity to make it so. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support …

Things to know about the gender-affirming care case as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
6 months, 3 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
7 months 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 …

Supreme Court poised to enter debate over transgender care for minors
8 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court poised to enter debate over transgender care for minors

LA Times  

People attend a rally as part of Transgender Day of Visibility outside the U.S. Capitol in March 2023. The state’s lawmakers had questioned the safety and effectiveness of hormone treatments for teens, and 6th Circuit Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton said that “states may reasonably exercise caution in these circumstances.” Biden administration Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth Prelogar said the state laws impose …

Arkansas governor says state won’t comply with new federal rules on treatment of trans students
8 months, 1 week 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 …

Tennessee lawmakers OK bill penalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care
8 months, 3 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, 4 weeks 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
9 months 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
9 months 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
9 months 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
9 months 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 …

Louisiana’s transgender ‘bathroom bill’ clears first hurdle
9 months, 1 week ago

Louisiana’s transgender ‘bathroom bill’ clears first hurdle

Associated Press  

— A bill that that would effectively bar transgender people in Louisiana from using restrooms, locker rooms and sleeping quarters that correspond with their gender identity — in public schools, jails and domestic violence shelters — advanced out of a state legislative committee Monday. While a handful of other GOP-controlled states have recently passed legislation dubbed “bathroom bills,” LGBTQ+ advocates …

A Nebraska bill to ban transgender students from the bathrooms and sports of their choice fails
9 months, 1 week ago

A Nebraska bill to ban transgender students from the bathrooms and sports of their choice fails

Associated Press  

— A bill that that would bar transgender students from school bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams that correspond with their gender identity failed Friday to get enough votes to advance in heavily conservative Nebraska. An amended version would have gone a step further by barring students taking male hormones from girls’ teams, even if they were assigned female at …

As Kansas nears gender care ban, students push university to advocate for trans youth
9 months, 2 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
9 months, 2 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, 3 weeks 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 …

Things to know about developments impacting LGBTQ+ rights across the US
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months 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
10 months, 2 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
10 months, 2 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 …

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