A new study shows that gender affirming care for transgender youth can improve a patient's mental health.
The state’s GOP Gov. Brad Littleapproveda bill that criminalizes providing gender-affirming care for youth. Signed on April 4, 2023, and set to go into effect in January 2024, thelawwas intended to make it a felony to provide hormones, puberty blockers or other gender-...
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...
and their work withEcetera in Kelowna, where they provide youth with gender-affirming garments. August is intimately familiar with the darkness that can engulf a person’s life when denied affirming care, as well as the life changing impact that love and support...
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“From a mental health perspective, we see the impact for those who do not receive affirming care,” said Duckett. “There remains higher suicidal ideation and attempts among those who do not receive gender-affirming care.” Through her work at This Space Duckett has seen the positive impact ...
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“From a mental health perspective, we see the impact for those who do not receive affirming care,” said Duckett. “There remains higher suicidal ideation and attempts among those who do not receive gender-affirming care.” Through her work at This Space Duckett has seen the positive impact ...
Which brings us to where we are today: In 2023 alone, hundreds of bills proposed at the state level are threatening trans people’s very right to exist, seeking to block their access to legal recognition, education, public life, and health care. In particular, gender-affirming care has ...
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a case surrounding gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The justices will review a lower court's decision upholding Tennessee's ban on the care. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Cra