Major Virginia medical center stops gender-affirming care for minors after Trump’s executive order
The treatment remains legal in Virginia, but at least one medical provider is complying with the anti-trans presidential directive.
February 1, 2025
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The treatment remains legal in Virginia, but at least one medical provider is complying with the anti-trans presidential directive.
Lawmakers are considering bills to ban gender-affirming care for youth and bar trans girls and women from female school sports teams.
LGBTQ+ activists in the U.K. are criticizing this restriction on care for transgender youth.
“Only eight days into his second term, President Donald Trump has blood on his hands,” executive director of Advocates for Trans Equality Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen said earlier this week.
The American Academy of Pediatrics said it continues to support the necessary and evidence-based care young transgender people need.
It comes as the state's GOP-controlled legislature has passed a number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills this session.
The suit comes two weeks after Paxton, known for his anti-LGBTQ+ views, filed the first case in the nation.
The trailblazing trans doctor and advocate recieved an honorary science doctorate from Rutgers.
The hearing was on the realities of LGBTQ+ people in the U.S.
Because the cruelty of taking essential medical care away from people who rely on it seems to be the point of Republican politicians, who are not doctors, in 2023.