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These laws, often called "shield" laws, often explicitly combine protections for gender-affirming care and abortion and cover a variety of protections including protecting both providers and patients from being punished, mandating insurance providers to cover the procedures and acting as "sanctuary states" that protect patients traveling to the ...
Transgender health care includes the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of physical and mental health conditions which affect transgender individuals. [1] A major component of transgender health care is gender-affirming care, the medical aspect of gender transition. Questions implicated in transgender health care include gender variance, sex ...
Bans on gender-affirming care have been criticized as governments interfering with the patient-doctor relationship and taking away healthcare decisions from parents and families for their children. [367] [368] State level bans on gender-affirming care in the United States have led some families with transgender children to move out of their states.
Many Republican states have passed laws banning such treatments, often called gender-affirming care, for minors. The rule applies to recipients of federal funds, including Medicaid programs.
The case could have wide-reaching implications for transgender youth living in states that have passed similar laws. After the first gender-affirming care ban for minors became law in 2021, a ...
The Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People (SOC) is an international clinical protocol by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) outlining the recommended assessment and treatment for transgender and gender-diverse individuals across the lifespan including social, hormonal, or surgical transition. [1]
Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a Biden administration appeal of a court ruling that upheld Tennessee’s measure prohibiting all gender-affirming care for the state’s minors. The ...
Several states, including Alabama, Arizona, Missouri, Texas, and Louisiana, have enacted laws that restrict or outright ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors. These bans typically prevent access to puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and in some cases, gender-affirming surgery for individuals under 18.