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From ‘Aspie supremacy’ to vaccines: The toxic autism politics of Trump’s second administration
1 week, 4 days ago

From ‘Aspie supremacy’ to vaccines: The toxic autism politics of Trump’s second administration

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. He has talked in public a number of times about having “Asperger’s syndrome” The …

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House Passes Defense Bill That Strips Health Care From Military Families’ Trans Kids
1 week, 4 days 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 …

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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 …

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Britain indefinitely bans puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria
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1 week, 5 days ago

Britain indefinitely bans puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria

Associated Press  

LONDON — The British government on Wednesday indefinitely banned puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria after independent experts found there was an unacceptable safety risk in prescribing the medication. The ban does not apply to those already receiving puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, to their use in clinical studies or in treatment of children with precocious puberty, an uncommon …

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Health Secretary Wes Streeting announces ‘indefinite’ ban on puberty blockers for children
1 week, 5 days ago

Health Secretary Wes Streeting announces ‘indefinite’ ban on puberty blockers for children

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mr Streeting announced an indefinite ban on the prescription of puberty blockers to children after …

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House GOP Uses Must-Pass Defense Bill To Strip Care From Military Families’ Trans Kids
1 week, 5 days 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 …

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GPs halting transgender patients’ hormone treatment or refusing prescriptions, investigation reveals
2 weeks, 1 day ago

GPs halting transgender patients’ hormone treatment or refusing prescriptions, investigation reveals

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Some of that is to do with wait times and more of that is …

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Transgender rights take center stage at the US Supreme Court. Here’s what to know
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Transgender rights take center stage at the US Supreme Court. Here’s what to know

CNN  

Washington CNN — The Supreme Court will dive headfirst into the politically fraught issue of transgender rights on Wednesday when it hears a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the highest-profile case of the fall. “This is going to be their first opportunity to address the rights of the transgender community under the equal protection clause, …

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Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?
3 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 …

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Missouri ban on gender-affirming care for minors upheld by judge
3 weeks, 6 days 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 …

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There’s Just Not Scientific Evidence That Gender Medicine for Teens Should Be Restricted
2 months, 2 weeks ago

There’s Just Not Scientific Evidence That Gender Medicine for Teens Should Be Restricted

Slate  

The Cass Review into gender identity services in the U.K. has been a topic of much contention. The Cass Review, named for Hillary Cass, the pediatrician who conducted it, was commissioned after a court case raised fears about the gender services—which are clinics run to provide care for transgender and gender-diverse children—in the U.K. People were worried that clinicians were …

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Psychology professor fired for opposing trans surgery for children wins free speech lawsuit against University of Louisville
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Psychology professor fired for opposing trans surgery for children wins free speech lawsuit against University of Louisville

Daily Mail  

A leading child psychiatrist has won a lawsuit after he was abruptly fired for comments about gender dysphoria. Dr. Allan Josephson, 72, was tapped to head the University of Louisville's Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry more than 20 years ago. After being hit with a federal free speech lawsuit, the Kentucky school argued it was within its rights to …

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Social media discussion of suicides by trans people ‘insensitive and dangerous’
5 months ago

Social media discussion of suicides by trans people ‘insensitive and dangerous’

The Independent  

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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 …

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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 …

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As a doctor and mother of a 5-year-old girl, the prospect of Labour in charge of trans policy is enough to make me want to quit Britain, writes GP Renée Hoenderkamp
5 months, 3 weeks ago

As a doctor and mother of a 5-year-old girl, the prospect of Labour in charge of trans policy is enough to make me want to quit Britain, writes GP Renée Hoenderkamp

Daily Mail  

Every morning this week I have woken up with an overwhelming dread in the pit of my stomach. Last year, the Labour leader said ‘99.9 per cent of women’ do not have a penis, and in 2021 stated it was ‘not right’ to say that ‘only women have a cervix’. Although Starmer appears to have changed his mind, Labour’s senior …

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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 …

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

Youth transgender care policies should be driven by science

Salon  

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

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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 …

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W. Virginia and N. Carolina’s transgender care coverage policies discriminate, judges rule
7 months, 3 weeks ago

W. Virginia and N. Carolina’s transgender care coverage policies discriminate, judges rule

LA Times  

Connor Thonen-Fleck addresses reporters while his parents stand by his side, March 11, 2019, in Durham, N.C. West Virginia and North Carolina’s refusal to cover certain healthcare 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 …

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Cass Review: A victory for women, children and common sense
8 months ago

Cass Review: A victory for women, children and common sense

Al Jazeera  

Dr Cass’s landmark review into gender care services in England brought us one step closer to throwing the harmful delusion that is gender ideology into the dustbin of history. In England, a landmark independent review into gender care services for young people has exposed one of the biggest medical negligence scandals of recent times and vindicated those who have been …

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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 …

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‘Most clinical guidelines on gender care did not follow international standards’
8 months, 1 week ago

‘Most clinical guidelines on gender care did not follow international standards’

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dr Hilary Cass said healthcare for people questioning their gender “needs to be improved …

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NHS puts trans teens at ‘risk of irreversible harm’, warns gender clinic head
8 months, 4 weeks ago

NHS puts trans teens at ‘risk of irreversible harm’, warns gender clinic head

The Telegraph  

NHS England is putting trans teenagers at “unreasonable risk of irreversible harm”, the head of a gender clinic will warn in a legal battle over treatment. Dr Karl Neff, a consultant endocrinologist and the head of Ireland’s National Gender Service, will warn the judge that the treatment currently offered to adults in England “will not fully meet their needs or …

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