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

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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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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2 weeks, 5 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

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

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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8 months, 2 weeks ago

‘No good evidence’ for gender care for youth over long term, review finds

Al Jazeera

Study commissioned by England’s health service says hormones should only be prescribed to teens with ‘extreme caution’. The evidence behind medical intervention for youth questioning their gender is “remarkably weak”, with some doctors abandoning “normal clinical approaches” to prescribe hormones to teens, a landmark review in the United Kingdom has found. There was also no evidence that puberty blockers “buy …

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9 months ago

England is limiting gender transitions for youths. US legislators are watching

Associated Press

Legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision in England to restrict gender transitions for young people as support for their own related proposals. NHS England says there is not enough evidence about their long-term effects, including “sexual, cognitive or broader developmental outcomes.” Starting April 1, NHS England will not prescribe puberty blockers — drugs that …

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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

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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1 year, 4 months ago

Alabama can enforce ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender children, court says

Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Alabama can enforce a ban outlawing the use of puberty blockers and hormones to treat transgender children, the second such appellate victory for gender-affirming care restrictions that have been adopted by a growing number of Republican-led states. In lifting the injunction, the judges wrote that states have “a compelling interest …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Column: In blow to anti-trans bigots, judge finds Florida’s treatment ban unconstitutional

LA Times

Ron DeSantis’ initatives restricting free speech, abortion and healthcare for transgender residents keep getting challenged in court — and often losing. “For many years, Florida’s Medicaid system paid for medically necessary treatments for gender dysphoria,” Judge Robert L. Hinkle wrote on June 21. The Medicaid agency ruling was followed by legislation prohibiting the use of state funds, including Medicaid, for …

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1 year, 6 months ago

England’s health service says it won’t give puberty blockers to children at gender clinics

Associated Press

LONDON — The publicly funded health service in England has decided it will not routinely offer puberty-blocking drugs to children at gender identity clinics, saying more evidence is needed about the potential benefits and harms. The National Health Service said Friday that “outside of a research setting, puberty-suppressing hormones should not be routinely commissioned for children and adolescents.” People under …

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1 year, 6 months ago

US judge blocks Florida ban on trans minor care in narrow ruling, says ‘gender identity is real’

Associated Press

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, saying in a Tuesday ruling that gender identity is real and the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment. Simone Chriss, a lawyer for Southern Legal Counsel representing the parents, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Federal judge temporarily blocks Florida ban on transgender treatment for minors

LA Times

Saying gender identity is real, a federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, ruling Tuesday that the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment. Attention on the new law has focused on language involving minors, and Hinkle’s ruling focuses on the use of GnRH agonists, known as …

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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 …

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1 year, 8 months ago

GP who ran transgender clinic wins appeal after misconduct finding

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. A High Court judge on Friday allowed an appeal …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Montana bill to deny care for transgender minors passes

Associated Press

— A Montana bill to deny gender-affirming medical care to young transgender residents passed a final vote in the state Senate on Wednesday, which sends the measure to Republican Gov. “Montana lawmakers seem hellbent on joining the growing roster of states determined to jeopardize the health and lives of transgender youth, in direct opposition to the overwhelming body of scientific …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Doctors question aspects of Missouri transgender care limits

Associated Press

Missouri’s attorney general has said he will issue an emergency regulation that at least temporarily puts strict limits on transgender medical treatment for youth. In the press release about the new rule, the attorney general’s office says patients must be told that using puberty blocker drugs or hormones to treat gender identity disorder is “experimental” and not approved by the …

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1 year, 9 months ago

How common is transgender treatment regret, detransitioning?

Associated Press

Many states have enacted or contemplated limits or outright bans on transgender medical treatment, with conservative U.S. lawmakers saying they are worried about young people later regretting irreversible body-altering treatment. In updated treatment guidelines issued last year, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health said evidence of later regret is scant, but that patients should be told about the possibility …

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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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2 years, 2 months ago

First-in-nation trial over whether a state can ban sex-change treatment for kids starts in Arkansas

Daily Mail

A trial over whether states can ban cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers, and sex-change surgery for children begins in Arkansas this week, in a landmark case pitting Republicans against trans campaigners. The teenager is among several trans youths and families who are challenging a state law banning their treatment 'This is about protecting children,' Republican Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said. A …

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

Britain indefinitely bans puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria

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

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?

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

‘No good evidence’ for gender care for youth over long term, review finds

England is limiting gender transitions for youths. US legislators are watching

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

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

Alabama can enforce ban on puberty blockers and hormones for transgender children, court says

Column: In blow to anti-trans bigots, judge finds Florida’s treatment ban unconstitutional

England’s health service says it won’t give puberty blockers to children at gender clinics

US judge blocks Florida ban on trans minor care in narrow ruling, says ‘gender identity is real’

Federal judge temporarily blocks Florida ban on transgender treatment for minors

Review finds no misconduct at Missouri trans youth clinic

GP who ran transgender clinic wins appeal after misconduct finding

Montana bill to deny care for transgender minors passes

Doctors question aspects of Missouri transgender care limits

How common is transgender treatment regret, detransitioning?

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

First-in-nation trial over whether a state can ban sex-change treatment for kids starts in Arkansas

Families, doctors contest Alabama transgender treatment ban