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Category: gender-affirming care

  • 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

    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…

  • Pediatricians’ group affirms support for ‘gender-affirming’ care, calls for review of guidelines

    Rating: Transphobic, Catholic News Agency, August 7, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Pediatricians’ group affirms support for ‘gender-affirming’ care, calls for review of guidelines Shutterstock By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 7, 2023 / 12:17 pm An influential pediatricians’ group affirmed its support for what activists call “gender-affirming” medical…

  • Ne-Yo on Best Practice Care for Transgender Kids: ‘I Don’t Understand’ – Billboard

    Rating: Transphobic, Billboard, August 5, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) Content Summary Ne-Yo on Best Practice Care for Transgender Kids: ‘I Don’t Understand’ – Billboard Ne-Yo shared his thoughts on how to parent transgender children and questioned minors’ rights to receive gender-affirming care in a new interview. The singer, a dad of seven…

  • Transgender school bathroom case left for Supreme Court to decide

    Rating: Transsupportive, IndyStar, August 3, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Content Summary Transgender school bathroom case left for Supreme Court to decide A federal court has upheld that three transgender students at two Indiana schools must have access to the bathrooms and locker rooms for their expressed gender identities.  The Seventh…

  • No More Closed Doors for Russian Transgender People

    Combined with the relentless transphobic rhetoric of Russian politicians and authorities, these developments suggest that Russia is an unsafe environment for transgender individuals. Those who choose to leave the country because of their identity should have the opportunity to find refuge in foreign nations where their lives and health will not be endangered. Rating: Transsupportive,…

  • Florida veered from norms to strip transgender care from Medicaid, records show

    Rating: Transsupportive, Tampa Bay Times, August 2, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Florida veered from norms to strip transgender care from Medicaid, records show Days before a state agency began researching whether transgender medical care for Floridians should be covered by Medicaid, officials started lining up experts known for…

  • Oklahoma governor signs order targeting transgender rights

    Rating: Transneutral, The Hill, August 2, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Oklahoma governor signs order targeting transgender rights Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed an executive order Tuesday directing state agencies to adopt narrow definitions of “male” and “female” in a move that will roll back legal protections for transgender people in the…

  • Attorney General: Transgender clinic investigation sparked by doctor’s video

    Rating: Transneutral, WTVF via News Channel 5 Nashville, August 2, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) Content Summary Attorney General: Transgender clinic investigation sparked by doctor’s video NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, in an exclusive interview, defended his investigation of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s transgender clinic and revealed the video that, he…

  • Transgender rights targeted in executive order signed by Oklahoma governor

    Rating: Trans supportive neutral phobic, NBC News, August 2, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) Content Summary Transgender rights targeted in executive order signed by Oklahoma governor The order requires state agencies and boards to define the words “female” and “male” to correspond with a person’s sex assigned at birth. OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma…