All posts tagged "transgender youth"
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Texas Man Charged with Threatening Doctor Who Treats Trans Patients
A Texas man faces federal charges in connection with threatening a Boston-based doctor who provides care to members of the transgender community. According to a...
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Florida Bans Gender-Affirming Treatments for Transgender Youth
Two Florida medical boards finalized a draft rule to ban medical interventions for transgender minors. The Florida Board of Medicine and Board of Osteopathic Medicine...
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Michigan Bill Would Jail Parents For Allowing Trans Children to Transition
A bill introduced earlier this month in Michigan could potentially sentence parents of transgender children to life in prison if they allow their child to...
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Majority of Americans Support Banning Medical Treatments for Trans Youth
A majority of Americans say they believe transgender-identifying youth should be forced to wait until adulthood before being legally allowed to to use puberty blockers...
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GLAAD Releases Ads Urging LGBTQ People and Allies to Vote
The LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD has released two new ads highlighting the stakes for LGBTQ Americans in the upcoming midterm elections in order to...
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Medical Groups Call for Investigating Threats Against Trans Youth Clinics
Three major medical groups have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asking it to investigate threats of violence against children’s hospitals and...
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Oklahoma Lawmakers Deny Funding for Transgender Youth Clinics
Oklahoma lawmakers have passed a bill that would force the closure of a transgender youth health care clinic at OU Children’s Hospital by denying taxpayer...
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Pete Buttigieg Attacks Cornyn, Cruz and Abbott over Anti-LGBTQ Stances
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg blasted three of Texas’s statewide elected officials over their positions on various LGBTQ issues while making remarks at a political...
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Texas Judge Blocks Investigations of More Families with Trans Children
A Texas state judge has blocked investigations into families with transgender children that belong to one of the largest LGBTQ advocacy groups in the country....
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Trans 8th Grader Removed from Class and Grilled by Investigator
The mother of a transgender boy says her 13-year-old son was removed from class and questioned by an investigator from the Texas Department of Family...
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Children’s Hospital Receives Threats Over Gender-Affirming Care
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has received online threats for providing gender-affirming care treatment options to transgender youth. The hospital,...
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California Bill Would Provide Refuge for Trans Youth and Their Parents
California lawmakers have approved a bill that would provide refuge for transgender youth and their families who are being investigated or threatened with removal from...
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Appeals Court Blocks Arkansas’ Ban on Transgender Youth Treatments
A federal appeals court has upheld an order blocking an Arkansas law that sought to bar transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming health care treatments, and...
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Would Jail Doctors for Treating Trans Youth
U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has introduced a bill that would punish doctors who provide gender-affirming care to transgender minors with up to 25 years...
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Utah GOP Resolution Seeks to Block Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Minors
The Utah Republican Party has passed a resolution looking to ban gender-affirming care for minors in the state. Titled “Protecting Those Most Vulnerable,” the resolution...
