gender-affirming care

Minnesota is a refuge for trans health care. Here's how doctors are meeting the need

6:00am October 25, 2024

As more states ban gender care for youth, doctors and clinics in Minnesota are building up capacity to help the influx of trans patients who are traveling or moving to the state for care.

New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care

4:41am October 23, 2024

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.

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Health & Safety

Sign here? Financial agreements may leave doctors in the driver's seat

5:00am April 30, 2024

Agreeing to an out-of-network doctor's financial policy, which protects their ability to get paid and may be littered with confusing jargon, can create a binding contract that leaves a patient owing.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks about the necessity to expand Medicaid in the state during a rally on March 6 in Topeka. Kelly on Friday vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

Kansas governor vetoes proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors

11:43am April 13, 2024

by The Associated Press

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly also vetoed a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she called a "vague" bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion.

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Transgender residents in North Carolina, Montana file lawsuits challenging new state restrictions

7:03pm October 11, 2023

by Hannah Schoenbaum and Amy Beth Hanson, Associated Press

Transgender residents of North Carolina and Montana added Wednesday to a growing list of lawsuits challenging the recent onslaught of Republican state laws aimed at transgender individuals.

Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina

9:05am August 17, 2023

by Hannah Shoenbaum, Associated Press/Report for America

Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming medical treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the governor’s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ+ instruction in the classroom.

a transgender teen testifies about gender-affirming care

Ban on gender-affirming care for minors in North Carolina clears another legislative chamber

8:38am June 28, 2023

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

Restrictions on access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth have now passed both North Carolina legislative chambers, as the Senate on Tuesday approved a ban on hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgeries that is more stringent than what the House recently passed.

Politics & Government

Newly veto-proof North Carolina GOP files transgender bans

3:46pm April 06, 2023

by Associated Press

On the heels of a Democratic state lawmaker's seismic shift to the Republican Party, North Carolina Republicans have filed a flurry of bills aimed at transgender youth as they look to capitalize on their newly attained supermajority.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, seen delivering the State of the State address on Jan. 25, has signed a bill that would ban most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18.

Georgia governor signs bill banning most gender-affirming care for trans children

4:59pm March 23, 2023

by The Associated Press

The state will ban most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18 with a new bill signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp.

Demonstrators gather on the steps to the Texas State Capitol in Austin to speak against transgender-related bills being considered in the state legislature in May 2021.

Most teens who start puberty suppression continue gender-affirming care, study finds

5:00am October 26, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

A new study from a Dutch clinic found that 98% of transgender adolescents who received puberty suppression treatment went on to continue gender-affirming treatment.