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Georgia restricted transgender care for youth in 2023. Now Republicans are seeking an outright ban
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Georgia restricted transgender care for youth in 2023. Now Republicans are ...
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How children and adolescents who are trans should be treated: New guidelines for the treatment of children and adolescents with gender dysphoria are published ...
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How children and adolescents who are trans should be treated
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Guideline for the treatment of trans adolescents was overdue: Comment: Better treatment of trans people is urgently needed - both medically and socially
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Guideline for the treatment of trans adolescents was overdue
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England's NHS halts puberty blockers for transgender youth amid research efforts: Reversible puberty blockers halt the development of gendered characteristics.
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England's NHS halts puberty blockers for transgender youth amid research ...
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Trans Medicine: New Guidelines for Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: After seven years of struggle, the recommendation for the treatment of trans children and ...
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Trans Medicine: New Guidelines for Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria
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How Lucy Sante Became the Person She Feared: Emily Witt on Lucy Sante’s memoir of her gender transition, “I Heard Her Call My Name.”
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How Lucy Sante Became the Person She Feared
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Andrea Long Chu’s Radical Gender Libertarianism: Andrea Long Chu says the unpopular part out loud.
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Andrea Long Chu’s Radical Gender Libertarianism
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HEALTH CONCERNS: Puberty blockers, a class of drugs that suppresses sex hormones, will no longer be available to children as a treatment for gender dysphoria ... Show more
Quick Glance: NHS ends prescription of puberty blockers for children
  • NHS England confirms children will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers.

  • Puberty blockers will only be available to children as part of clinical research trials.

  • An independent review recommends creating regional services to better support youngsters.

  • New NHS clinics in London and Liverpool offer holistic care for children.
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Justice Department finds Utah prison discriminated against transgender inmate - UPI.com
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Justice Department finds Utah prison discriminated against transgender ...
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Transgender woman with gender dysphoria harmed by Utah prison discrimination, Justice Department says
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Transgender woman with gender dysphoria harmed by Utah prison ...
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LGBTQ organization sues Texas AG over youth transgender records probe: PFLAG is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) over his request that the ...
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LGBTQ organization sues Texas AG over youth transgender records probe
Quick Glance: Court Halts Paxton's Demand for Trans Youth Documents
  • A Texas district court judge temporarily stopped the state attorney general's demand for documents on transgender youth.

  • PFLAG National, a nonprofit group supporting LGBTQ individuals, sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

  • Paxton's demand was related to allegations of fraud regarding gender-affirming medical care.

  • The district court blocked Paxton's demand and scheduled a hearing to further address the matter.
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West Virginia medical professionals condemn bill that prohibits care to at-risk trans youth
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West Virginia medical professionals condemn bill that prohibits care to ...
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Southern Anti-Trans Laws Are Uprooting Families — And Leaving Them With Impossible Choices
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Southern Anti-Trans Laws Are Uprooting Families — And Leaving Them With ...
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Trans-skeptical U.S. book finds new Japanese publisher: A controversial U.S. book questioning an increase in young women seeking gender transition will come out ...
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Trans-skeptical U.S. book finds new Japanese publisher
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Anguish lingers as transgender kids’ families seek medical care outside Texas — and fight a state ban
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Anguish lingers as transgender kids’ families seek medical care outside ...
Quick Glance: Trump praises Texas Governor in Border Clash with Biden Administration
  • Trump praised Texas Governor Greg Abbott for border security measures and resistance against the Biden administration.

  • He promised to support Texas in the fight against illegal immigration and criticized the Biden administration for their actions.

  • Trump lamented the Biden administration's attempts to weaken him through prosecution and emphasized the negative impact of immigration on Hispanic and Black families.

  • Immigration policy was a key issue in Iowa's Republican caucuses, where Trump found support among voters like Rob Williams.
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Florida bars transgender residents from changing gender on driver’s licenses: Transgender Floridians will no longer be able to change their gender on ...
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Florida bars transgender residents from changing gender on driver’s ...
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Texas AG seeks transgender records in Georgia as part of his wider probe: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) asked a Georgia telehealth clinic to share ...
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Texas AG seeks transgender records in Georgia as part of his wider probe
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Conversion therapy Scotland: Proposals for ban could introduce transgender self-ID by back door
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Conversion therapy Scotland: Proposals for ban could introduce transgender ...
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Texas AG’s pursuit of transgender medical records stirs privacy concerns: Ken Paxton’s investigation, part of an ongoing attack on the LGBTQ community ...
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Texas AG’s pursuit of transgender medical records stirs privacy concerns
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A Maryland trans woman’s journey to find her voice: The Baltimore Sun followed Jessie Buckley for three months as she received gender-affirming voice therapy at ...
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A Maryland trans woman’s journey to find her voice
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'It was a way of reflecting the anguish in my mind by making my body mirror my mental state' writes Lily Thomsontrib.al/rNgSVFQ
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A Maryland trans woman’s journey to find her voice: The Baltimore Sun followed Jessie Buckley for three months as she received gender-affirming voice therapy at ...
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A Maryland trans woman’s journey to find her voice
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Idaho asks Supreme Court to let gender-affirming healthcare ban stand - UPI.com: Idaho has asked the Supreme Court to allow the state to enforce its felony ban ...
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Idaho asks Supreme Court to let gender-affirming healthcare ban stand - ...
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Millions of LGBTQ Americans have religious trauma. Psychiatrists want to help: Some mental health experts argue that putting religious trauma in the DSM would ...
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Millions of LGBTQ Americans have religious trauma. Psychiatrists want to ...
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Ohio Senate passes law restricting transgender care, school sports participation: The Ohio Senate voted to override the governor’s veto on a bill that bans ...
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Ohio Senate passes law restricting transgender care, school sports ...
Quick Glance: Ohio's New Regulations: Gender-Affirming Care and Transgender Athlete Restrictions
  • Ohio's latest legislation prohibits gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapies, along with mental health care for transgender individuals under 18.

  • Additionally, transgender girls and women are barred from participating in girls' and women's sports teams at K-12 and collegiate levels.

  • Governor DeWine has issued an executive order banning gender-affirming surgeries for individuals under 18, despite medical professionals stating there's no such surgeries taking place in the state.

  • Currently, at least 23 states have enacted laws restricting or prohibiting gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, resulting in numerous legal challenges.
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How an Acclaimed Writer Found the “Consuming Furnace at the Center of My Life”: Lucy Sante’s writing is fearlessly honest—a quality as rare as the New York ...
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How an Acclaimed Writer Found the “Consuming Furnace at the Center of My ...
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'I regularly get hit with the insult that I’m just "a man in a dress"' trib.al/1Fyd5q0
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Transgender veterans sue the VA for gender-affirming surgery: The Department of Veterans Affairs excludes gender-confirming surgery from veteran health benefits ...
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Transgender veterans sue the VA for gender-affirming surgery
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Japan court approves nonsterilized trans man's gender change - The Mainichi: OKAYAMA (Kyodo) -- A Japanese court on Wednesday recognized a transgender man's ...
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Japan court approves nonsterilized trans man's gender change - The ...
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Efforts to restrict transgender health care endure in 2024, with more adults targeted
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Efforts to restrict transgender health care endure in 2024 ...
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Court approves gender change for nonsterilized trans man in Japan: Before the top court decision, Japan's law on gender dysphoria stipulated six conditions to ...
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Court approves gender change for nonsterilized trans man in Japan
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Response to First Do No Harm: Why we treat gender diverse youth: Considering the wealth of evidence that gender dysphoria is real, delaying care can, in itself ...
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Response to First Do No Harm: Why we treat gender diverse youth
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Ohio abandons plans to restrict trans care for adults: The proposed limits would have been the toughest restrictions on transition-related care for adults in the ...
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Ohio abandons plans to restrict trans care for adults
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Buffalo dad accuses ex of 'unilateral gender transition' of young son: A Buffalo, N.Y., dad said his ex-wife allegedly forced their young son to transition from ...
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Buffalo dad accuses ex of 'unilateral gender transition' of young son
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Colorado legal settlement would improve housing, care for trans women inmates: Taliyah Murphy received a letter in early 2018 about a soon-to-be-filed ...
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Colorado legal settlement would improve housing, care for trans women ...
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Debbie Hayton: the trans woman taking on the trans activists: She was married with children when she transitioned. But when Debbie Hayton began questioning the ...
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Debbie Hayton: the trans woman taking on the trans activists
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Adam Zivo: Calm down, Canada. Alberta's new gender policies appear quite sensible
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Adam Zivo: Calm down, Canada. Alberta's new gender policies appear quite ...
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Judge: DeSantis administration being ‘clever’ about Medicaid trans care ban: The judge declined to issue a motion to enforce his earlier judgment that struck ...
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Judge: DeSantis administration being ‘clever’ about Medicaid trans care ...
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Texas Supreme Court hears transgender health care lawsuit: A fight over allowing transgender children to access puberty blockers and hormone therapies could ...
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Texas Supreme Court hears transgender health care lawsuit
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Trans women in Colorado prisons to receive improved care, housing standards under historic legal settlement
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Trans women in Colorado prisons to receive improved care, housing ...
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Iowa lawmakers decline to advance bill that would remove gender identity from the state’s civil rights law
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Iowa lawmakers decline to advance bill that would remove gender identity ...
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Efforts to restrict transgender health care endure in 2024, with more adults targeted
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Efforts to restrict transgender health care endure in 2024 ...
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A call on SA medical professionals to heed evidence on child and adolescent gender distress
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A call on SA medical professionals to heed evidence on child and ...
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Escape into fantasy: My Heavenly Favourite, by Lucas Rijneveld, reviewed: When Marieke Lucas Rijneveld won the International Booker Prize in 2020 for The ...
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Escape into fantasy: My Heavenly Favourite, by Lucas Rijneveld, reviewed
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Utah has a growing demand for gender-affirming care, as lawmakers consider anti-LGBTQ bills
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Utah has a growing demand for gender-affirming care, as lawmakers consider ...
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As Ohio mulls rules for gender transition care, one transgender Ohioan is packing his bags
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As Ohio mulls rules for gender transition care, one transgender Ohioan is ...
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Removing gender identity from Iowa Civil Rights Act proposed by Iowa House Republican
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Removing gender identity from Iowa Civil Rights Act proposed by Iowa House ...
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Opinion: As a pediatrician, I know how dangerous Utah’s bathroom bill is for transgender youth
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Opinion: As a pediatrician, I know how dangerous Utah’s bathroom bill is ...
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Florida may force transgender people to put birth sex on drivers licenses: TALLAHASSEE — Transgender people would be forced to put their birth sex on their ...
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Florida may force transgender people to put birth sex on drivers licenses
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How California schools can support and protect our trans and non-binary students | Opinion
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How California schools can support and protect our trans and non-binary ...
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US Supreme Court sidesteps fight over transgender student bathroom access: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an Indiana public school district's ...
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US Supreme Court sidesteps fight over transgender student bathroom access
Quick Glance: Supreme Court Decision on School Transgender Policies
  • The Supreme Court upheld a ruling in favor of transgender students in Indiana to access school restrooms and locker rooms in line with their gender identity.

  • The Court declined to hear the case of a transgender boy fighting to use the boys' restrooms at his former middle school.

  • A split among federal appeals courts on whether school districts can enact policies prohibiting transgender students from using gender identity-aligned bathrooms remains unresolved.

  • Transgender students have filed nationwide lawsuits alleging violations of the 14th Amendment and Title IX.
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Trans youth ‘terrified’ of what Louisiana’s new health care ban will mean: A new law banning gender-affirming care for minors in Louisiana took effect at the ...
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Trans youth ‘terrified’ of what Louisiana’s new health care ban will mean
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States are limiting gender-affirming care for adults, too: Ohio has joined several other GOP states in efforts to restrict transition care for adults.
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States are limiting gender-affirming care for adults, too
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Quick Glance: Ohio: Ban on Trans Youth Care and Sports
  • The bill prohibits transgender youth medical care and sports participation.

  • Physicians providing this care face disciplinary measures.

  • Transgender individuals already in care can continue receiving treatment.

  • At least 21 states have implemented restrictions on gender-affirming care.
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Gender dysphoria diagnoses are rising nationwide: Gender dysphoria diagnoses rose in nearly every U.S. state between 2018 and 2022.
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Gender dysphoria diagnoses are rising nationwide
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Ohio lawmaker compares gender dysphoria in kids to thoughts of being a bird: Rep. Beth Lear, R-Galena, is sponsoring a bill that would ban transgender students ...
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Ohio lawmaker compares gender dysphoria in kids to thoughts of being a ...
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DeWine vetoes controversial bill banning trans kids from girls' sports and some medical treatments
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DeWine vetoes controversial bill banning trans kids from girls' sports and ...
Quick Glance: DeWine Blocks Controversial Legislation
  • The rejected legislation would have excluded trans youth from participating in girls' sports and limited the access of trans children under 18 to some medical treatments related to their gender identity.

  • DeWine stressed that parents should be the ones making the best decisions for their children, not the government.

  • Many parents emphasized the life-saving impact of certain treatments that would have been restricted by the government.

  • The necessity of the legislation was justified by some senators due to medical institutions finding it difficult to self-regulate in politically contested areas.
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California retailers now required to have gender-neutral toy aisles: Major retailers in California are now required to have gender-neutral toy aisles under a new ...
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California retailers now required to have gender-neutral toy aisles
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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma : North Carolina is one of at least 22 states that have passed laws restricting or ...
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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma
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Single mum can't afford to turn heating on as bills leave her with just £60: Karent Stanway said she can not afford to turn her heating on.
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Single mum can't afford to turn heating on as bills leave her with just ...
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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma : North Carolina is one of at least 22 states that have passed laws restricting or ...
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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma
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Seattle hospital sues Texas AG who sought records of trans minors: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal battle with Seattle Children’s Hospital marks a rare ...
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Seattle hospital sues Texas AG who sought records of trans minors
Quick Glance: Seattle Hospital Fights Texas AG Requests for Transgender Care Records
  • Seattle Children's Hospital was asked by Attorney General Ken Paxton to provide records of gender-affirming treatments for minors from Texas, as shown in court filings.

  • The hospital filed a lawsuit in Austin, Texas, this month challenging Paxton's requests, who has been involved in Republican efforts targeting trans people's rights.

  • Texas is among more than 20 states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors.

  • Court records revealed no decision has been made yet regarding the hospital's lawsuit.
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Single mum can no longer afford heating after bills leave her with £60 to live: "It’s quite depressing to be honest, and I feel so bad for my son ...
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Single mum can no longer afford heating after bills leave her with £60 to ...
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Supreme Court lets stand Washington state law barring conversion therapy for minors
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Supreme Court lets stand Washington state law barring conversion therapy ...
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The Ohio Senate voted to pass a bill that would limit gender-affirming care for transgender minors and participation in girls' and women's sports ... Show more