GENDER affirming carePOLICY sciencesINSURANCE claimsINSURANCE companiesThe document explores insurance coverage and social determinants of health for individuals seeking gender-affirming care in the United States. Using data from a healthcare insurance clearinghouse, the study found that commercial insurance ...
Indeed, that was the point. The University of Virginia Medical Center in nearby Charlottesville had a clinic specifically for women like Rhoda. In fact, doctors there had been prescribing hormones and performing surgeries—what today we would call gender-affirming care—for years. The founder of t...
The U.S. Army will no longer allow transgender people to enlist, and will stop providing gender-affirming care for service members, it announced on social media Friday. "The #USArmy will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating ...
This cohort study examines trends in inpatient and outpatient gender-affirming surgical procedures in the US and explores the temporal trends in the types
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 a requirement to meet in person with a...
In 2024, 533 anti-LGBTQ bills were considered by state legislatures and only 49 passed, according to the ACLU. Kentucky, like other states behind the new wave of restrictive bills, previously passed a gender-affirming care ban for people under the age of 18. In 2023, the gende...
The challengers warn that Mr. Trump's directive to cut off federal funding for medical providers that offer gender-affirming care has already had "concrete and immediate effects." In one instance, Children's National based in Washington, D.C.,announcedlast week — on the heels of the presiden...
MORE: Map: Where gender-affirming care is being targeted in the US “There is a lot of anxiety around the increased affirmation and visibility of LGBTQ experiences, and especially trans and nonbinary experiences,” said activist and author Raquel Willis. Several trans activists told ABC News th...
Dr. Maddie Deutsch, head of the UCSF Gender Affirming Health Program. Credit: University of California At a time when gender-affirming care is in the political spotlight—especially in state houses across the country seeking to make it more difficult to obtain this kind of care—we sat down ...
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