Gender-affirming care is a broad term for many distinct treatments provided to children, teens, and adults. Puberty blockers, for example, are medications that inhibit puberty by suppressing the body's production of sex hormones, while hormone therapy is the administration of testosterone or estroge...
Sixth Circuit Allows Bans on Gender-Affirming Medical Care for Minors in Tennessee and Kentucky Earlier this year, the legislatures of Tennessee and Kentucky banned certain medical treatments for minors with gender dysphoria, which has been characterized by the American Psychiatric Associat...
The U.K. Cass reportopens in a new tab or window(herein Cass) has spurred many headlines, most of which tout the findings of "weak evidenceopens in a new tab or window" for gender-affirming care (GAC). What "weak" and "strong" mean in the context of systematic reviews is a bit ...
The lawsuit comes just weeks before an election in which Republicans have used support of gender-affirming health care as a way to attack their opponents. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has repeatedly blasted his Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, for his support of tran...
Consideration of suicide is something that has never been an issue with me other than to wonder what it would take for me to even mildly entertain the idea. So, when I read about the current rate of youth who have “considered” suicide as a reason for “gender affirming care” in the...
At least 21 hospitals have recently made changes to the sections on their websites describing their gender-affirming care services, out of a STAT analysis of the websites of 34 hospitals across the country.(Some of those differences may not have been motivated by harassment; websites change for...
Meanwhile, the organization pressured Johns Hopkins to suppress and not publish the systematic reviews that reflected negatively on so-called gender-affirming care. And Johns Hopkins complied. The Standards of Care’s eighth version was released with the false claim that a “systematic review regardi...
2022. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/claiming-abuse-texas-tries-to-prevent-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-children Quote: “Medical experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, say gender-affirming care is safe and best practice for transgender patients.” Ceron, Eron, and Kelsey...
The Texas ban was signed into law by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who was the first governor to order the investigation of families of transgender minors who receive gender-affirming care.
Medical mistrust driven by non-affirming care and traumatic patient-provider interaction also affects healthcare access and cancer screening uptake among SGM patients [48, 56]. SGM patients report difficulty finding providers who will treat them with dignity and respect, as well as greater rates of...