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Seattle allows single occupant restrooms in city facilities and public places to be used by any person, regardless of sex or gender identity. [76] Since January 1, 2022 under the "Gender Affirming Treatment Act" in Washington State will legally cover sex reassignment surgery for insurance purposes under Medicaid. [77]
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas as part of a ...
The right of transgender minors to access gender-affirming care has sparked debate in many parts of the United States, and it’s now heading to the US Supreme Court.
The gender-affirming care legislation is a major part of a broader set of laws and policies that has emerged in Republican-controlled states that rein in rights of transgender people.
Singapore was the first country in Asia to legalize gender-affirming surgeries in 1973. Singapore's first gender-affirming operation on a transmasculine patient took place three years later, and was carried out in three stages between August 1974 and October 1977, as gender-affirming surgeries for transmasculine people are much more complex.
As part of the settlement, according to court records, the parties agreed that Seattle Children’s Hospital would withdraw its registration to transact business in Texas. But a hospital spokesperson said in a statement that they don't operate health care facilities or provide gender-affirming care in Texas.
Here's how LGBTQ+ rights—including gender-affirming care and trans rights—fared in the 2024 election after Donald Trump was elected the 47th ... Then there's the Affordable Care Act (ACA ...
“Gender-affirming care can be basically anything that affirms someone’s gender identity," Dr. Juanita Kay Hodax, co-director of the Gender Clinic at Seattle Children’s, told TODAY.