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Trans lobby group threatens to help break puberty blockers ban by exploiting loopholes

Campaigners demanded an urgent review of the puberty blockers ban last night over a trans lobby group’s offer to help children exploit loopholes. Hours after they were permanently banned by the Government last week, Anne Trans Health started offering youngsters ‘legal, compassionate and supportive routes’ to access the body-altering hormones, which halt development into adulthood. Activists protesting outside Health Secretary …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Wes Streeting’s puberty blockers ban will force transgender kids to go to France for treatment

The Independent

Trans people in the UK face a pragmatic choice: to co-operate with what is regarded as a hostile Labour administration for the good that can be achieved for trans people or to protest what is regarded as the latest insult. Yesterday, the health secretary, Wes Streeting, confirmed as permanent the ban on the use of puberty blockers for trans youth …

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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

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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1 week, 6 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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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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3 weeks 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 …

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3 weeks 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 …

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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 …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Wes Streeting pushes ahead with NHS puberty blockers clinical trial as high court rules ban lawful

The Independent

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

High Court judge in the UK upholds the government ban on puberty blockers

Associated Press

LONDON — A High Court judge on Monday upheld the British government’s emergency ban on puberty blockers, saying a study that found “very substantial risks and very narrow benefits” of the treatment supported the restriction as potentially being harmful. Justice Beverley Lang said a review commissioned by England’s National Health Service concluded that gender care is an area of “remarkably …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Wes Streeting ‘treading cautiously’ in pressing ahead with puberty blocker ban

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 Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Medicine given to children must …

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5 months, 1 week ago

There are a few things Wes Streeting should consider before making his mind up on puberty blockers

The Independent

The current ban on puberty blocking drugs in the treatment of trans children has presented Labour’s new health secretary, Wes Streeting, with a significant test of his and his party’s ability to steer clear of the divisive arguments that dominated the end of the last government and instead deliver meaningful change for the better. A temporary ban was put in …

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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 …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

NHS loophole allows puberty blockers for children

The Telegraph

The 2022 interim review by Dr Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, led to the closure of children’s gender services at the controversial Tavistock clinic as well as the ban on puberty blockers. Following her initial findings, the NHS launched a consultation on banning them, under which it proposed that doctors could prescribe …

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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, …

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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 …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Your Kid Is Trans. You Live in Texas. There Are No Good Options.

Slate

Zeder was 7 when he told his parents that the body he’d been born into didn’t feel right for him. But Paxton had used his power to try to intimidate providers into ending that legal care, as part of the state’s concerted assault on health care for trans youth. Another parent of a trans child in Lobo’s community told her …

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1 year, 1 month ago

This State Tried To Pass Anti-Trans Laws For Years. Then A Right-Wing Media Star Got Involved.

Huff Post

Last September, Riley headed to their clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which was usually brimming with chatter about the day’s research and patient needs. All day people whispered about the social media posts by right-wing blogger Matt Walsh, which had gone viral the day before for claiming that doctors at Vanderbilt’s transgender health clinic “castrate” and “sterilize” children. Riley …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Transgender minors in Nebraska, their families and doctors brace for a new law limiting treatment

Associated Press

— As Nebraska’s new law restricting gender-affirming care for minors goes into effect this weekend, families with transgender children and the doctors who treat them are steeling themselves for change. Only those minors who have shown “a long-lasting and intense pattern of gender nonconformity or gender dysphoria” would be allowed to start puberty blocking or hormone treatment, and only under …

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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 …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Missouri judge says ban on gender-affirming health care for minors can take effect on Monday

The Independent

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Trans lobby group threatens to help break puberty blockers ban by exploiting loopholes

Wes Streeting’s puberty blockers ban will force transgender kids to go to France for treatment

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

Britain indefinitely bans puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria

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

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

U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to state ban on gender-affirming care

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

Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Trans Youth Health Care

What medical care for transgender minors is at stake in Supreme Court case?

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

Wes Streeting pushes ahead with NHS puberty blockers clinical trial as high court rules ban lawful

High Court judge in the UK upholds the government ban on puberty blockers

Wes Streeting ‘treading cautiously’ in pressing ahead with puberty blocker ban

There are a few things Wes Streeting should consider before making his mind up on puberty blockers

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

NHS loophole allows puberty blockers for children

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

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

Your Kid Is Trans. You Live in Texas. There Are No Good Options.

This State Tried To Pass Anti-Trans Laws For Years. Then A Right-Wing Media Star Got Involved.

Transgender minors in Nebraska, their families and doctors brace for a new law limiting treatment

Some providers are dropping gender-affirming care for kids even in cases where it’s legal

Missouri judge says ban on gender-affirming health care for minors can take effect on Monday