Republicans launch midnight attack on healthcare for trans Americans
In their budget bill, Republicans attacked healthcare access for trans Americans by prohibiting Medicaid funding for all “gender-transition procedures.”
Tag: GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE
Status update on Trump’s executive orders 1 month in
As lawsuits against the administration grow, here is where some of the orders that affect LGBTQ+ people and women stand.
Trump directive ‘dangerously’ conflates gender-affirming care with a human rights violation
Groups that work to end female genital mutilation and cutting worry about an executive order that co-opts the policies they’ve worked to pass over nearly 30 years.
Trump’s executive order sows confusion for transgender federal prisoners
Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, transgender federal prisoners are “told one thing from one staff person and a totally different thing from another.”
Trump Admin sued after families lose access to gender-affirming care under executive order
The lawsuit announced by LGBTQ+ advocates was filed on behalf of transgender people under the age of 19 in Maryland, New York and Massachusetts.
Gender-affirming care isn’t new. An upcoming book sheds light on its history.
More than 40 authors contributed to “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States,” which took its expert editors more than a decade to compile.
Tennessee’s Gender Affirming Care Ban For Children Goes to U.S. Supreme Court For Arguments
Tennessee’s attorney general is set to defend the state’s gender affirming care ban for minors in the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday against challengers who say the 2023 law endangers children.
Fact-Check: JD Vance misrepresents Minnesota law on kids seeking gender-affirming care
Claim: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed a law that would “take children away from their parents if the parents don’t want to consent to sex changes.” Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, criticized his vice…
In Texas, parents’ rights don’t extend to gender-affirming care, state Supreme Court says
The Texas Supreme Court found that parents in the state do not have the constitutional right to seek gender-affirming care for their children.
U.S. Supreme Court will hear challenge to Tennessee’s ban on care for transgender minors
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday morning it will take up a challenge to Tennessee’s 2023 ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
