gender-affirming healthcare consists of drugs to stop breast development, hair growth and penis development. Surgery can consist of removing breasts and a double mastectomy. For female to male transitioning surgery involves peeling the skin from the arm to create a penis, and for male to...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's administration on Wednesday backed off its plans to impose rules that advocates feared would have restricted gender-affirming medical treatment for adults in a way no other state has. The rules proposed by two state departments would have required psychiatrists, e...
and advocates for transgender rights are warning that if the Supreme Court upholds the ban, it would open the door to state lawmakers outlawing gender-affirming care for adults.
Although the term gender-affirming care came into the public’s lexicon fairly recently, Dr. Madeline Deutsch,directorof the UCSF Gender Affirming Health Program in San Francisco, said the practice has been around for some time and is basedon decadesof scientific research. Major mainstream medical ...
The future of gender-affirming care In many states, especially in the South, where I live, governors and legislatures are introducing bills to ban gender-affirming care—even for adults—in ignorance of history. The consequences of hurried legislation extend beyond trans people, because access to...
Erin Friday, a leader of Our Duty, an international group that supports the bans on gender-affirming care for minors, said the case is going to be as important as Roe v. Wade. She said upholding the Tennessee law would bolster the cases for the laws restricting sports participation and bat...
DeSantissignedinto law a similar gender-affirming careban from the state Legislature. In June 2024, a federal judgeruled that key measures of the law were unconstitutional, including its restrictions on gender transition care for minors and provisions related to adults, such as ...
Gender-affirming care for youth - first steps There are many paths and combinations of care that can be taken on a journey of affirming a person’s gender and not all of them involve medical intervention. “I’ve seen people’s lives transformed by accessing affirming care,” said Mitchell....
Gender-affirming care, as America understands it, stipulates counselling, which can lead to puberty-blocking drugs and subsequently cross-sex hormones (testosterone for girls and oestrogen for boys—used, by one estimate, in 10% of cases).美国人所理解的性别认同护理规定的咨询，可能导致使用青春期...
Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based care that uses a multidisciplinary approach to help a person transition from their assigned gender – the one the person was designated at birth – to their affirmed gender – the gender by whi