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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 ...
In 1975, Pennsylvania became the first U.S. state in which an executive order was issued providing for discrimination protection on the basis of sexual orientation in state employment. [27] In 2003, gender identity was added to this executive order and the order has been reissued by every governor since then.
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 ...
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.
Over the past three years, 26 Republican-controlled states have passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for minors. Most of the laws ban puberty blockers, hormone treatment and surgery for ...
Medicaid does not have a federal policy on transgender health care and leaves the regulation of the coverage of gender-confirming health care up to each state. [132] While Medicaid does not fund sex reassignment surgery in forty states, [ 133 ] several, like New York [ 134 ] and Oregon, [ 135 ] now require Medicaid to cover (most) transgender care.
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