Category: gender-affirming care

  • Anti-transgender laws drive families to move to Illinois

    Anti-transgender laws drive families to move to Illinois

    Rating: Transsupportive, Chalkbeat Chicago, August 29, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Anti-transgender laws drive families to move to Illinois Back in the spring, Kimberly Reynolds stared at a map of the U.S. Each state was filled in with a color gradient: red for those with the strictest active anti-transgender…

  • How South Carolina’s abortion law sounds to transgender men

    How South Carolina’s abortion law sounds to transgender men

    Rating: Transsupportive, South Carolina Public Radio, August 29, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary How South Carolina’s abortion law sounds to transgender men For gender-expansive people in general, and for transgender men in particular, South Carolina’s ban on most abortions after six weeks raises scary questions. Chief among those is…

  • The young people impacted by Missouri law restricting transgender rights

    The young people impacted by Missouri law restricting transgender rights

    Rating: Transsupportive, Channel 4 News, August 29, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary The young people impacted by Missouri law restricting transgender rights – Channel 4 News A swathe of Republican-controlled states across America have been passing laws restricting transgender rights – the latest, Missouri where new legislation…

  • ACLU sues Indiana over law banning gender-affirming surgery in prison

    Rating: Transneutral, IndyStar, August 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary ACLU sues Indiana over law banning gender-affirming surgery in prison The ACLU of Indiana is suing the Indiana Department of Correction for denying gender-affirming surgery to a transgender woman, challenging a new state law that prohibits the…

  • Transgender prisoner files lawsuit against Indiana DOC after being prevented access to surgery

    Transgender prisoner files lawsuit against Indiana DOC after being prevented access to surgery

    Rating: Transneutral, FOX 59 Indianapolis, August 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Transgender prisoner files lawsuit against Indiana DOC after being prevented access to surgery EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The Indiana office of the American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of a transgender prisoner, has filed a lawsuit in federal…

  • Maplewood Richmond Heights School District denounces new transgender athletes law

    Maplewood Richmond Heights School District denounces new transgender athletes law

    Rating: Transneutral, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 28, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Maplewood Richmond Heights School District denounces new transgender athletes law Jack Suntrup JEFFERSON CITY — Maplewood Richmond Heights School District administrators on Monday called a new state law restricting transgender athletes discriminatory and didn’t shut the door…

  • Poll finds Missouri voters back bans on transgender health care

    Poll finds Missouri voters back bans on transgender health care

    Rating: Transphobic, Missouri Independent, August 25, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Poll finds Missouri voters back bans on transgender health care • Missouri Independent UPDATE on Friday, Aug. 25, at 3:15 p.m.: This story was updated to reflect the decision by Circuit Judge Steven Ohmer, who handed down a…

  • This Is What Transgender Eradication Looks Like

    This Is What Transgender Eradication Looks Like

    Rating: Transsupportive, Erin in the Morning, August 23, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary This Is What Transgender Eradication Looks Like   On Monday morning, we learned of a tragic incident: a woman was fatally attacked outside her store by an individual who had torn down the pride flag displayed…

  • CNN fact-checked by Community Notes for report that transgender patients ‘have no regrets’ about ‘top surgery’

    CNN fact-checked by Community Notes for report that transgender patients ‘have no regrets’ about ‘top surgery’

    Rating: Transphobic, Fox News, August 10, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary CNN fact-checked by Community Notes for report that transgender patients ‘have no regrets’ about ‘top surgery’ CNN was fact-checked by X’s Community Notes after it cited a study claiming “[t]ransgender and nonbinary patients have no regrets…

  • Transgender and nonbinary patients have no regrets about top surgery, small study finds

    Transgender and nonbinary patients have no regrets about top surgery, small study finds

    Rating: Transsupportive, CNN, August 9, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Transgender and nonbinary patients have no regrets about top surgery, small study finds Some arguments in favor of laws that restrict gender-affirming care claim that patients may some day regret any irreversible or semi-irreversible part of their…