Minnesota clinics are figuring out how to best care for out-of-state trans patients : NPR
1 month, 4 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 Family Tree executive director Annie Van Avery. SIMMONS-DUFFIN: Across town, pediatrician Kade Goepferd runs the gender health program at Children's Minnesota. SIMMONS-DUFFIN: As patients get older, trans teenagers and their families may decide to use puberty blocking medications or cross-sex hormones.

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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
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 …

Trans People Prepare For Trump’s Second Term
1 month 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 …

Minnesota is a refuge for trans health care. Here's how doctors are meeting the need
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Minnesota is a refuge for trans health care. Here's how doctors are meeting the need

NPR  

Minnesota is a refuge for trans health care. Then, there’s Minnesota, which has gone in the opposite direction, passing a bill last year that made the state a “trans refuge.” “We’re this island in the middle of states who are banning and restricting access,” says Dr. Kelsey Leonardsmith, director of youth gender care at Family Tree Clinic in Minneapolis. Sponsor …

‘We’ve created medical refugees.’ LGBTQ+ healthcare workers fight for gender-affirming care amid rise in anti-trans laws
5 months, 1 week 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 …

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 …

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 …

Judge to rule on temporary block of North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 1 month ago

Judge to rule on temporary block of North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota district judge said Tuesday he’ll decide soon on whether to temporarily block the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for children, among the latest in a series of similar lawsuits playing out across the U.S. Three families and a pediatrician are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in September. They say the ban violates the …

Transgender residents in North Carolina, Montana file lawsuits challenging new state restrictions
1 year, 2 months ago

Transgender residents in North Carolina, Montana file lawsuits challenging new state restrictions

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Transgender residents of North Carolina and Montana added Wednesday to a growing list of lawsuits challenging the recent onslaught of Republican state laws aimed at transgender individuals. The family of a transgender boy in North Carolina is suing state health officials to block implementation of gender-affirming care restrictions that they say will force their son to undergo …

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 …

Families challenge North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for children
1 year, 3 months ago

Families challenge North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for children

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — Families and a pediatrician are challenging North Dakota’s law criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors, the latest lawsuit in many states with similar bans. State lawmakers “have outlawed essential health care for these kids simply and exclusively because they are transgender,” Gender Justice attorney and North Dakota state director Christina Sambor told reporters. They have made it a …

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 …

What makes for a transgender safe haven? California, other blue states are figuring it out
1 year, 4 months ago

What makes for a transgender safe haven? California, other blue states are figuring it out

LA Times  

California stands for “equality and acceptance.” In Minnesota, “the march of hate and bigotry stops” at its borders. “That’s why I feel a lot safer and more comfortable bringing them to Minnesota for care, especially now, given the sanctuary status that created.” More than 86% of transgender and nonbinary people ages 13 through 24 said their mental health had been …

A tale of 2 states' trans laws
1 year, 5 months ago

A tale of 2 states' trans laws

NPR  

A tale of 2 states' trans laws Families with trans children in states where gender-affirming care has been banned are deciding whether to uproot to states where care is protected. So lawmakers here - because Democrats have the majority in the Senate, the House and the governor's office - were able to pass gender-affirming care protections this year, so that …

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 …

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 …

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

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — On an early morning in June, Flower Nichols and her mother set off on an expedition to Chicago from their home in Indianapolis. “Most parents are going through some kind of developmental process themselves as they come to understand their child’s gender.” —— On June 13, Flower and Jennilyn set off on their trip, unsteady but hopeful. Tate …

Arizona governor’s executive actions ban ‘conversion therapy,’ allow transgender health care
1 year, 5 months ago

Arizona governor’s executive actions ban ‘conversion therapy,’ allow transgender health care

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs issued two pro-LGBTQ executive orders on Tuesday, banning state support of so-called conversion therapy and allowing transgender state employees to receive gender-affirming health care under their insurance plan. Under the executive actions, state agencies will be prohibited from using funds to promote or facilitate so-called conversion therapy, the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy …

Texas family moves so trans teen can escape anti-LGTBQ laws: ‘I’d rather be out than dead’
1 year, 6 months ago

Texas family moves so trans teen can escape anti-LGTBQ laws: ‘I’d rather be out than dead’

The Independent  

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Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward in US statehouses
1 year, 7 months ago

Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward in US statehouses

Associated Press  

A federal judge is considering whether to block Florida’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, as bills targeting the rights of trans people are being embraced by Republican governors and statehouses across the country. Here’s what’s happening: FLORIDA’S RESTRICTIONS Attorneys for the parents of three transgender children appeared before a federal judge in Florida on Friday, seeking to …

Republicans push surge of laws targeting transgender people in US
1 year, 7 months ago

Republicans push surge of laws targeting transgender people in US

Al Jazeera  

A rush of legislation targeting transgender people has been introduced – and in some cases passed – in state legislatures across the United States as the topic has become a Republican priority. Most recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to announce his bid to be the Republican presidential nominee, signed bills that ban gender-affirming care for minors, restrict …

Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward in US states
1 year, 7 months ago

Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward in US states

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. Ron DeSantis has highlighted efforts by Republican governors and …

Montana latest to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors
1 year, 7 months ago

Montana latest to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors

Associated Press  

— Montana became the latest state to ban or restrict gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids Friday when its Republican governor signed legislation that exiled transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr told fellow lawmakers would leave “blood” on their hands. The bill “protects Montana children from permanent, life-altering medical procedures until they are adults, mature enough to make such serious decisions,” Gianforte …

Washington, Minnesota become trans refuges, shield abortions
1 year, 7 months ago

Washington, Minnesota become trans refuges, shield abortions

Associated Press  

SEATTLE — Washington and Minnesota won’t cooperate with attempts to prosecute out-of-state patients seeking reproductive or gender-affirming procedures and treatment, under new laws signed Thursday by the two states’ Democratic governors. They’re the latest liberal states to enact legal safeguards as Republican legislators across the country are rushing to block or limit transgender and abortion health care. Anti-abortion advocates and …

Washington, Minnesota become trans refuges, shield abortions
1 year, 7 months ago

Washington, Minnesota become trans refuges, shield abortions

LA Times  

Jay Inslee hands a pen to Rep. Drew Hansen, left, after signing state House Bill 1469, which shields abortion and gender-affirming care patients and providers from prosecution by out-of-state authorities and prevents cooperation with investigations, Thursday at the University of Washington’s Hans Rosling Center for Population Health in Seattle. Democratic governors in Washington state and Minnesota on Thursday signed into …

Cosmetic to critical: Blue states help trans health coverage
1 year, 7 months ago

Cosmetic to critical: Blue states help trans health coverage

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Ore. — For most of her life in New Mexico, Christina Wood felt like she had to hide her identity as a transgender woman. Oregon lawmakers are expected to pass a bill that would further expand insurance coverage for gender-affirming care to include things like facial hair removal and Adam’s apple reduction surgery, procedures currently considered cosmetic by insurers …

Montana transgender lawmaker silenced again, backers protest
1 year, 7 months ago

Montana transgender lawmaker silenced again, backers protest

Associated Press  

— Montana Republicans persisted in forbidding Democratic transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from participating in debate for a second week and her supporters brought the House session to a halt Monday — chanting “Let her speak!” from the gallery before they were escorted out. Zephyr, a first-term Democrat from Missoula, hasn’t spoken on the Statehouse floor since last Tuesday when she …

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 …

Minn. Senate protects gender-affirming care, abortion rights
1 year, 8 months ago

Minn. Senate protects gender-affirming care, abortion rights

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Senate waded into the culture wars Friday by passing bills to make Minnesota a refuge for youth seeking gender-affirming care, out-of-state abortion patients and providers seeking protection, and to ban so-called conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youth. First up was the conversion therapy ban, which passed 36-27 with two Republicans voting “yes.” The abortion refuge …

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 …

North Dakota governor signs law limiting healthcare for transgender patients
1 year, 8 months ago

North Dakota governor signs law limiting healthcare for transgender patients

LA Times  

Doug Burgum has signed a bill into law that restricts transgender healthcare and makes providing gender-affirming care to people under 18 a crime. Doug Burgum has signed a bill into law that restricts transgender healthcare in the state, immediately making it a crime to give gender-affirming care to people younger than 18. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Dakota …

Montana governor supports transgender minor health care ban
1 year, 8 months ago

Montana governor supports transgender minor health care ban

Associated Press  

— Montana’s Republican governor indicated Monday he would sign a bill to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, but he suggested changes to make it clear that public funds could not be used to pay for surgery or hormone treatments for youth diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Gianforte said he had met with transgender youth and adults, understands that their …

Idaho to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth
1 year, 8 months ago

Idaho to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — Starting next year, anyone in Idaho who provides gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could end up a convicted felon, after the state’s Republican governor signed legislation banning the treatment late Tuesday. Opponents of the legislation say it will likely increase suicide rates among teens, but proponents say the bill is necessary to “protect children” from medical …

Minnesota moves to strengthen status as ‘trans refuge state’
1 year, 9 months ago

Minnesota moves to strengthen status as ‘trans refuge state’

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota House was moving Thursday toward strengthening the state’s protections for children and their families who come for gender-affirming care by making Minnesota a “trans refuge state,” bucking a national backlash against transgender rights. “Gender-affirming care is lifesaving health care,” Finke said at a news conference before the debate. “Bans on gender-affirming care are creating …

Minnesota moving to fortify state status as abortion refuge
1 year, 9 months ago

Minnesota moving to fortify state status as abortion refuge

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota is moving to fortify its status as a refuge for patients from restrictive states who travel to the state to seek abortions — and to protect providers who serve them. Democratic House Majority Leader Jamie Long, of Minneapolis, said the bill is needed because Texas-style legislation has been introduced in several states that could put …

Minnesota governor protects rights to gender affirming care
1 year, 9 months ago

Minnesota governor protects rights to gender affirming care

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order Wednesday protecting the rights of LGBTQ people from Minnesota and other states to receive gender affirming health care, as he slammed the tide of other states rolling back transgender rights. “Protecting and supporting access to gender affirming health care is essential to being a welcoming and supportive state.” Advocates …

Trans people face ‘horrifying’ rhetoric at statehouses
1 year, 9 months ago

Trans people face ‘horrifying’ rhetoric at statehouses

Associated Press  

— It was pharmacist Gwendolyn Herzig’s first time testifying before a legislative committee when she spoke to several Arkansas lawmakers in a packed hearing room this month about a bill restricting gender-affirming care for minors. “Bills like SB199 are designed to hinder, not help, Arkansans by creating barriers to evidence-driven health care they deserve under the guise of helping the …

Trans youth care ban headed to Tennessee governor’s desk
1 year, 10 months ago

Trans youth care ban headed to Tennessee governor’s desk

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Transgender youth in Tennessee would be banned from receiving gender-affirming care under legislation currently headed to the desk of Republican Gov. They need love and support, and many of them need to be able to grow up to become the individuals that they were intended to be.” Across the United States, state lawmakers have introduced legislation attacking …

Indiana lawmakers advance ban on all gender-affirming care
1 year, 10 months ago

Indiana lawmakers advance ban on all gender-affirming care

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — Krisztina and Ken Inskeep’s son came out as transgender when he was a teenager, a transition they told an Indiana Senate public health committee on Wednesday that offered a remedy to years of his mental health struggles. Still, an Indiana Senate bill that the couple called “cruel and arrogant” — banning gender-affirming transition treatments for those 18 and …

Mississippi governor vows to sign limit on transgender care
1 year, 10 months ago

Mississippi governor vows to sign limit on transgender care

Associated Press  

Tate Reeves confirmed Tuesday that he plans to sign a bill to ban gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18 — part of a broad effort in conservative states to restrict transgender athletes, gender-affirming care and drag shows. I know from years of working directly with trans youth in Mississippi that they need support, love, and affirmation …

Arkansas malpractice bill restricts trans youth medical care
1 year, 10 months ago

Arkansas malpractice bill restricts trans youth medical care

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 Nearly two years after Arkansas …

Crowds decry gender-affirming treatment ban in West Virginia
1 year, 10 months ago

Crowds decry gender-affirming treatment ban in West Virginia

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Crowds at the West Virginia state Capitol pleaded with lawmakers Thursday to show as much compassion for saving the lives of transgender children as they showed for unborn fetuses when they voted to ban abortion just months ago. Over and over, dozens of doctors, parents and LGBTQ people told the Republican supermajority during a hearing that a …

S. Dakota lawmakers push bill to bar transgender youth care
1 year, 10 months ago

S. Dakota lawmakers push bill to bar transgender youth care

Associated Press  

— A state House committee voted Tuesday to advance a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth in South Dakota. “Gender-affirming care is part of comprehensive primary care,” said Daniel Heinemann, chief officer of Sanford Health and chair of South Dakota’s American Academy of Family Physicians. “Family physicians are deeply concerned by the growing trend of recent legislative …

Utah bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors
1 year, 10 months ago

Utah bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Gov Spencer Cox signed the ban into law …

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