Nearly half US states limit or ban access to gender affirming care for adolescents, finds report

Some 23 of the 50 US states limit or ban adolescents’ access to gender affirming care, say reports from the independent data source KFF and the Association of American Medical Colleges. Many states penalise providers of such care.12Gender affirming care, also called transgender care, is an issue in this year’s US election, along with reproductive matters such as the right to abortion and the rights of frozen embryos, which the Alabama Supreme Court recently decided had the same rights as children.3More than 30 US medical associations support gender affirming care. Last year the AMA Journal of Medical Ethics published a health law statement saying, “The recent trend criminalising gender affirming care for transgender youth is politically motivated and not tethered to evidence based medicine. The consequences of legally blocking this critical treatment are dire and have life threatening implications. Many leading medical associations around the country—such as the American Academy…
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