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News Articles: gender-affirming care

Democratic Sens. Kim Jackson, left, and Elena Parent watch votes come in for the Senate’s gender-affirming care ban for inmates. Jackson opposed the bill and Parent voted for it. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Georgia Senate OKs bill to outlaw gender-affirming care for inmates in state custody

A bill banning gender-affirming treatments for inmates in state custody passed the Georgia Senate Monday.

March 04, 2025
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By:
  • Ross Williams
People celebrate outside a Seattle federal courthouse after a second federal judge paused President Trump's order against gender-affirming care for youth on Friday.

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  • Law

A 2nd U.S. judge pauses Trump's order against gender-affirming care for trans youth

A second federal judge paused President Trump's executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 19.

February 15, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
President Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House last week.

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  • Politics

Trump signs an order restricting gender-affirming care for minors

President Trump signed an executive order seeking to end gender-affirming medical treatments for children and teenagers under the age of 19.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Cross-sex hormones, including testosterone, are part of gender-affirming care that has been banned in half of states.

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  • Health

'A very, very small number' of teens receive gender-affirming care, study finds

A new analysis of private insurance claims data finds less than 0.1% of youth accessed puberty blockers or hormones for gender transition. This small group has garnered a huge amount of attention from Republican lawmakers in recent years.

January 06, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a challenge to Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

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  • Law

Supreme Court seems ready to uphold ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Three Tennessee families—and the Biden administration—are challenging the state's ban.

December 04, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court hears argument in a case involving gender-affirming care for minors in Tennessee.

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  • Law

Supreme Court hears challenge to law banning gender-affirming care for trans kids

At issue is a Tennessee law that bans access to hormones, puberty blockers and other treatments for trans kids in the state.

December 04, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Dr. Kelsey Leonardsmith (left) with colleague Dylan Flunker in the garden of Family Tree Clinic in Minneapolis. The two run a program to train more doctors and nurses in the region to be able to provide gender affirming care, which is legal in Minnesota, but banned for youth in dozens of states around the country.

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  • Health

Minnesota is a refuge for trans health care. Here's how doctors are meeting the need

As more states ban gender care for youth, doctors and clinics in Minnesota are building up capacity to help the influx of trans patients who are traveling or moving to the state for care. 

October 25, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Veronica, 17, of Des Moines, Iowa, with her estrogen pills. A new study shows a very low rate of regret among kids taking puberty blockers or hormones as part of gender-affirming care.

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  • Health

New research finds trans teens have high satisfaction with gender care

The survey published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that trans teens taking puberty blockers or hormones had very low rates of regret.

October 23, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
When he arranged to undergo top surgery, Cass Smith-Collins of Las Vegas selected a surgeon touted as an early developer of the procedure who does not contract with insurance. "I had one shot to get the chest that I should have been born with, and I wasn't going to chance it to someone who was not an expert at his craft," he says.

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  • Health

Sign here? Financial agreements may leave doctors in the driver's seat

Agreeing to an out-of-network doctor's financial policy, which protects their ability to get paid and may be littered with confusing jargon, can create a binding contract that leaves a patient owing.

May 01, 2024
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By:
  • Katheryn Houghton and
  • Emily Siner
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks about the necessity to expand Medicaid in the state during a rally on March 6 in Topeka. Kelly on Friday vetoed a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

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  • National

Kansas governor vetoes proposed ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly also vetoed a measure to require more reporting from abortion providers and what she called a "vague" bill making it a crime to coerce someone into having an abortion.

April 13, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, seen delivering the State of the State address on Jan. 25, has signed a bill that would ban most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18.

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  • National

Georgia governor signs bill banning most gender-affirming care for trans children

The state will ban most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18 with a new bill signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp.

March 23, 2023
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  • The Associated Press

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  • National

Bills targeting trans youth are growing more common — and radically reshaping lives

An NPR analysis finds that over the past two years, state lawmakers introduced more than 300 bills targeting trans people. Most of this legislation, 86%, takes aim at the rights of trans youth.

November 28, 2022
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By:
  • Koko Nakajima and
  • Connie Hanzhang Jin
Demonstrators gather on the steps to the Texas State Capitol in Austin to speak against transgender-related bills being considered in the state legislature in May 2021.

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  • Medical Treatments

Most teens who start puberty suppression continue gender-affirming care, study finds

A new study from a Dutch clinic found that 98% of transgender adolescents who received puberty suppression treatment went on to continue gender-affirming treatment.

October 26, 2022
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Rep. Wes Allen, sponsor of the House version of the bill, speaks during debate at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery on Thursday.

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  • National

Alabama Legislature votes to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth

State lawmakers also passed a separate measure prohibiting early classroom instruction on sexual and gender identity, a bill critics have dubbed "Don't Say Gay."

April 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Republican-pushed bills are seeking to deny minors access to hormone therapy and puberty blockers. Both are treatments that have been vetted and peer-reviewed by mainstream medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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  • National

A third of trans youth are at risk of losing gender-affirming care, study says

Fifteen states have enacted or are currently considering laws that would restrict medical treatments to more than 58,000 transgender youth.

March 21, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo

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