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After the first gender-affirming care ban for minors became law in 2021, a flurry of states passed similar measures. Gender-affirming care was a particularly hot-button topic for lawmakers on both ...
It’s one of 26 states that have passed bans on gender-affirming health care for transgender children and teenagers, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Movement Advancement Project, a ...
Starting in the early-2020s, as many as 13 U.S. states banned gender affirming health care for transgender youth, [195] with several states further restricting treatment for adults as well. [ 196 ] [ 197 ] In January 2024, several Republican legislators have expressed their desire to ban gender-affirming healthcare altogether.
[46] [47] An estimated 9,000 gender-affirming surgeries take place annually in America. [48] As of November 2023 twenty-two states have banned gender-affirming medical care for people under 18 years old, including twenty-one states that have specifically banned or restricted hormonal treatment in addition to surgery. [49]
Florida is one of 22 states to adopt a law in the last few years banning gender-affirming care for children, including Texas, where enforcement began on Friday.
As of August 2023, 21 states have banned gender affirming care for minors and 7 states are considering implementing such a ban. [12] Transgender voters who must wait until the age of 18 to receive gender affirming care face barriers in changing their gender on birth certificates and driver's licenses in time for an upcoming election.
What they do: Physician Izzy Lowell, MD, started QueerMed in 2017 after realizing there was a huge demand for gender-affirming telehealth care. Currently, QueerMed works across 48 states ...
There are currently 26 states that have enacted laws to restrict such gender-affirming care, though some of those bans are tied up in legal challenges. Proponents of these types of laws argue that ...