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Gender-Affirming Care
Texas Supreme Court Says Parental Rights Don’t Extend to Gender-Affirming Care
The court ruled that parents only have the right to seek medical care for their children that is “legally available.”
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Youth
Bans on gender-affirming care are “medically unsound” and “a violation of fundamental human rights,” one advocate said.
Judge Blocks Florida’s Gender-Affirming Care Ban for Transgender Youth
The state has vowed to appeal the ruling, which will likely head to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Gender-Affirming Care Gave Me a Life I Love. Why Do Pundits See It as a Tragedy?
Why are trans voices like mine minimized in the “debate” around our own health care?
4th Circuit Rules Against States Discriminating Against Trans Patients
Arguments about “costs” being too burdensome were soundly rejected by the court.
Report: GOP State AGs Abused Authority to Get Trans Patients’ Health Records
Committee Chair Ron Wyden chided Vanderbilt University Medical Center for its “utter betrayal” of transgender patients.
Sacramento Passes Resolution Declaring Itself a Transgender Sanctuary City
The resolution forbids the city from helping other jurisdictions in their pursuit to restrict gender-affirming care.
States’ Anti-LGBTQ Moves May Have Disastrous Health Impacts, Experts Say
Medical professionals are worried about the long-term physical and mental effects of anti-LGBTQ legislation.
What Does Embodied Liberation Look Like? A Trans Activist Shares Thoughts.
Trans author and activist Florence Ashley discusses the “pleasure and politics of living in a gendered body.”
16 Attorneys General From Red States Threaten to Sue Maine for Health Care Bill
The bill protects providers offering gender-affirming care to patients from states where such care is prohibited.