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Bans on Transition Care for Young People Spread Across U.S. [1]

['Francesca Paris']

Date: 2023-04-15

Florida’s state medical boards also issued a rule last year prohibiting doctors from offering gender-affirming care to new patients under 18. Though not a law, the decree has the same effect of ending care.

Two more state legislatures, in Oklahoma and South Carolina, have successfully pushed major hospitals to stop providing gender-affirming care for minors by linking the care to the use of public funds.

And Missouri’s attorney general on Thursday announced a temporary order severely restricting gender-affirming care for both adults and minors by mandating strict requirements including evidence of three years of gender dysphoria documented by physicians. It is set to take effect on April 27.

Including prior bans, this means gender-affirming medical care has been restricted by law or other means in 13 states, with another two under judicial review.

These state-level actions are part of a broader wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed and passed across the United States. And hospitals have faced significant harassment for providing gender-affirming care in the last few years.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/upshot/bans-transgender-teenagers.html

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