Transgender health care debate reaches Supreme Court One Tennessee family is leading the charge to overturn laws banning gender-affirming care. ABC News’ Devin Dwyer takes a closer look at their journey. December 2, 2024 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Hospital in Rome where ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court heard themost high-profile case of its termon Wednesday, weighing Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors. Similar laws have been passed by other conservative-leaning states. Challengers say...
Arkansaswas the first state to enact such a ban on gender affirming care, with Republican lawmakers in 2021 overriding GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson's veto of the legislation.AlabamaRepublicans this year approved legislation to outlaw gender-affirming medications for transgender youths. Both laws have been...
Bailey's efforts to crack down on gender-affirming health care come as Republican lawmakers across the country have proposed hundreds of laws aimed at transgender people. At least 13 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for minors. ...
Republicans in more than half of the 50 states have passed laws or policies that ban gender-affirming care for minors, some of which have been blocked or overturned by the courts. A challenge to Tennessee's ban has been heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has ...
The 2016 regulation was issued as part of section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, which applied a host of existing civil rights laws to health care facilities that receive federal funding. In addition to prohibiting discrimination against transgender patients, the regulatio...
After a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year, Republican state lawmakers this year are zeroing in on questions of bodily autonomy with new proposals to limit gender-affirming health care and abortion access.
Republicans in more than half of the 50 states have passed laws or policies that ban gender-affirming care for minors, some of which have been blocked or overturned by the courts. A challenge to Tennessee’s law has been heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to issue a ruli...
The case before the high courtinvolves a law in Tennessee that restrict puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors. The federal appeals court in Cincinnati allowed laws in Tennessee and Kentucky to take effect after they had been blocked by lower courts. (The high court did not...
Prelogar said earlier that under Tennessee’s theory of the law, nothing would stop the state from banning gender-affirming care for all transgender people, not just minors. Transgender rights advocates have argued that that anti-transgender laws aimed at supposedly protecting children are just the...