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

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

Daily Mail  

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

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Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?
1 month, 1 week 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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Your Kid Is Trans. You Live in Texas. There Are No Good Options.
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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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 …

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Missouri clinics halt transgender care for minors in wake of new state law
1 year, 3 months ago

Missouri clinics halt transgender care for minors in wake of new state law

Associated Press  

ST. LOUIS — At least two Missouri health care centers have stopped prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to minors for the purpose of gender transition, citing a new state law that one clinic says “creates unsustainable liability” for health care workers. Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital on Monday announced it stopped providing those services, and a …

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Rulings in Texas, Missouri jumble again where US transgender youth can receive treatment
1 year, 4 months ago

Rulings in Texas, Missouri jumble again where US transgender youth can receive treatment

Associated Press  

— A judge on Friday ruled against Texas’ ban on gender-affirming health care for minors while a separate judge in Missouri let a similar ban take effect, jumbling again where in the U.S. transgender youth can receive treatment. In a statement, the Texas attorney general’s office said it would “continue to enforce the laws duly enacted by the Texas Legislature …

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Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need
1 year, 6 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 …

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Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need
1 year, 6 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 …

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Pride as resistance: LGBTQ+ people struggle against right-wing war on their legal rights
1 year, 7 months ago

Pride as resistance: LGBTQ+ people struggle against right-wing war on their legal rights

LA Times  

Kai Shappley speaks at an October 2021 rally in Austin against a Texas bill to ban transgender girls from participating with other girls in school sports. On Thursday, Biden denounced the wave of laws targeting LGBTQ+ people as “callous,” “cruel,” “hysterical” and “prejudiced,” and announced new federal initiatives to protect the queer community — saying that his administration “has their …

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Families, doctors contest Alabama transgender treatment ban
2 years, 8 months ago

Families, doctors contest Alabama transgender treatment ban

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Families with transgender teens sued the state of Alabama in federal court on Monday to overturn a law that makes it a crime for doctors to treat trans youth under 19 with puberty blockers or hormones to help affirm their gender identity. “Transgender youth are a part of Alabama, and they deserve the same privacy, access to …

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NHS trust wins legal fight to overturn ban on puberty-blocking drugs for children
3 years, 3 months ago

NHS trust wins legal fight to overturn ban on puberty-blocking drugs for children

The Telegraph  

Children under 16 will be allowed to take puberty blockers without parental consent, the Court of Appeal has ruled. ‘Victory for common sense’ Following the ruling, Mermaids, a charity representing trans children, claimed it as “a victory for common sense and young people’s bodily autonomy” amid calls for the NHS to urgently publish updated guidance for the 5,000 young people …

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Children ‘must understand nature of treatment’ before taking puberty blockers, High Court rules
4 years, 1 month ago

Children ‘must understand nature of treatment’ before taking puberty blockers, High Court rules

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. The case against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust was brought by Keira Bell, …

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