All posts tagged "gender-affirming care"
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Medical Groups Call for Investigating Threats Against Trans Youth Clinics
Three major medical groups have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asking it to investigate threats of violence against children’s hospitals and...
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Texas Judge Blocks Investigations of More Families with Trans Children
A Texas state judge has blocked investigations into families with transgender children that belong to one of the largest LGBTQ advocacy groups in the country....
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Trans 8th Grader Removed from Class and Grilled by Investigator
The mother of a transgender boy says her 13-year-old son was removed from class and questioned by an investigator from the Texas Department of Family...
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Transgender Floridians Sue Over Medicaid Coverage Ban
A group of transgender individuals is suing the state of Florida over a new rule prohibiting Medicaid from covering gender-affirming health care treatments, even if...
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Children’s Hospital Receives Threats Over Gender-Affirming Care
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has received online threats for providing gender-affirming care treatment options to transgender youth. The hospital,...
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Appeals Court Blocks Arkansas’ Ban on Transgender Youth Treatments
A federal appeals court has upheld an order blocking an Arkansas law that sought to bar transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming health care treatments, and...
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Boston Hospital Receives Threats Over Gender-Affirming Care
Boston Children's Hospital employees have received both phone and online threats in reaction to its gender-affirming care programs.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Would Jail Doctors for Treating Trans Youth
U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced a bill that would punish doctors who provide gender-affirming care to transgender minors with up to 25 years...
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Utah GOP Resolution Seeks to Block Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Minors
The Utah Republican Party has passed a resolution looking to ban gender-affirming care for minors in the state. Titled “Protecting Those Most Vulnerable,” the resolution...
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Florida Bans Medicaid Coverage for Transgender Health Treatments
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration has finalized a revised rule banning health care providers from billing Medicaid for gender-affirming medical treatments for children...
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Massachusetts Passes Bill Protecting Abortion Rights and Trans Health Care
Last week, Massachusetts’ Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill protecting the right to obtain an abortion and receive gender-affirming care into law. Bay State...
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Researchers: Florida Report on Trans Health Care is Flawed, Biased
Researchers from Yale are slamming a report from Florida health care officials that takes a hardline stance against the use of Medicaid dollars to pay...
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Trans Health Experts Say Gender-Affirming Care Can Begin Earlier
A global transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for starting affirming health care treatments for the purpose of transitioning. The World Professional...
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Hawaii Governor Signs 3 Pro-LGBTQ Bills into Law
Breaking away from the trend of state governments implementing discriminatory legislation aimed at LGBTQ people, on June 16, Hawaii Governor David Ige signed three bills...
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Texas GOP Snubs Gay Republicans, Adopts Anti-LGBTQ Platform
Official party platform calls homosexuality an "abnormal lifestyle choice" and refuses to acknowledge transgender identity as valid.
