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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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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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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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West Virginia governor signs ban on gender-affirming care
1 year, 8 months ago

West Virginia governor signs ban on gender-affirming care

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Republican Gov. The West Virginia law comes as Republican lawmakers across the U.S. have pursued several hundred proposals this year to push back on LGBTQ+ rights, particularly rights for transgender residents, including banning transgender girls from girls sports, keeping transgender people from using restrooms in line with their gender identities and allowing or requiring schools …

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West Virginia GOP Legislature passes transgender care ban
1 year, 9 months ago

West Virginia GOP Legislature passes transgender care ban

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill that would ban evidence-based health care for transgender minors in West Virginia, the state estimated to have more transgender youth per capita than any other in the nation, is headed to the desk of Gov. But lawmakers in West Virginia and other states advancing bans on transgender health care for youth and young adults often …

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WV Senate joins GOP effort to limit trans youth health care
1 year, 9 months ago

WV Senate joins GOP effort to limit trans youth health care

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s Republican supermajority Senate followed a growing national trend of GOP opposition to health care for transgender youth by passing a bill that would ban certain treatments and therapies, while approving a significant change to add exceptions for mental health. He found a supporter in Senate Health and Human Resources Committee Chair Sen. Mike Maroney, another …

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Trans youth health care and media: What to understand about how the debate is covered.
1 year, 9 months ago

Trans youth health care and media: What to understand about how the debate is covered.

Slate  

Here are some things we know about gender-affirming health care: We know that the number of young patients being seen by gender clinics has increased, and that the gender balance of these young patients has changed, with more female-assigned youth seeking care. Something similar can be found in an article for the New York Times about teens who are accessing …

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

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

LA Times  

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

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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 …

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Florida to ban transgender health care treatments for minors
2 years, 1 month ago

Florida to ban transgender health care treatments for minors

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Transgender children in Florida will be barred from receiving hormones or undergoing surgeries to treat gender dysphoria under a rule approved Friday by state medical officials at the urging of Republican Gov. The Florida Board of Medicine and the state Board of Osteopathic Medicine voted at a joint meeting in Lake Buena Vista to finalize rules governing …

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

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

The Independent  

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EXPLAINER: What medical treatments do transgender youth get?
2 years, 8 months ago

EXPLAINER: What medical treatments do transgender youth get?

Associated Press  

Transgender medical treatment for children and teens is increasingly under attack in many states, labeled child abuse and subject to criminalizing bans. Such care typically begins with a psychological evaluation to determine whether the children have “gender dysphoria,’' or distress caused when gender identity doesn’t match a person’s assigned sex. In girls transitioning to boys, testosterone generally leads to permanent …

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How political pressure led to shutdown of Texas’ largest gender-affirming care program
2 years, 9 months ago

How political pressure led to shutdown of Texas’ largest gender-affirming care program

Raw Story  

Leaders of a now-defunct health clinic — known for years as the largest program of its kind for transgender youth in Texas — came under pressure to restrict gender-affirming care from the governor’s office and a state House investigative committee, according to recordings of internal meetings among hospital leadership and staff obtained by The 19th. Greg Abbott called three special …

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Montana House OKs bill limiting gender surgery for youth
3 years, 10 months ago

Montana House OKs bill limiting gender surgery for youth

Associated Press  

— The Montana House on Wednesday endorsed a bill that would limit gender affirming health care for transgender youth, a limit that doctors say already exists in best practices. The bill by Republican Rep. John Fuller of Whitefish, which would prohibit surgical procedures for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors, was endorsed 59-40 on second reading. Fuller’s motion to …

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