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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 ...
[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]
Gender-affirming care is a multidisciplinary approach that includes medically necessary and scientific evidence-based practices to help a person safely transition from their assigned gender ...
Starting in the early-2020s, as many as 13 U.S. states banned gender affirming health care for transgender youth, [196] with several states further restricting treatment for adults as well. [ 197 ] [ 198 ] In January 2024, several Republican legislators have expressed their desire to ban gender-affirming healthcare altogether.
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 ...
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.
Laws in several southern states like Texas and North Carolina prohibit doctors from prescribing gender-affirming care medications and surgeries to transgender minors, but experts say many patients ...
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.