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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The 2020s anti-LGBTQ movement in the United States is an ongoing political backlash from social conservatives against LGBTQ movements.It has included legislative proposals of bathroom use restrictions, bans on gender-affirming care, anti-LGBTQ curriculum laws, laws against drag performances, book bans, boycotts, and conspiracy theories around grooming. [1]
Misinformation and disinformation have led to proposed and successful legislative restrictions on gender-affirming care across the United States. [1] [36] As of November 1, 2024, 26 states in the United States have passed bans on gender-affirming care for minors and 16 have passed shield laws and executive access protecting such care. [63]
The Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the U.S. on Tuesday and released a guidebook pointing to laws it deems discriminatory in each state, along with “know ...
Gender-affirming care will also be “excluded” from the Defense Department’s TRICARE program, which provides care for nearly 2 million Americans under 18, according to the order.
On March 3, Florida submitted SB254 which would allow the state to take away children from parents who allow gender-affirming care for them, even if they live outside of the state. [128] At the end of March 2023, Kentucky legislature overrode the governor's veto and put into law that bans gender affirming care in the state and requires doctors ...