Trump orders NIH to study gender transition ‘regret.’ Here's what we already know about it
Trump wants to study transgender people's "regret," but people are more likely to regret having children than gender-affirming surgery.
April 7, 2025
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Trump wants to study transgender people's "regret," but people are more likely to regret having children than gender-affirming surgery.
Despite a lack of data, anti-trans proponents often center narratives of regret to dissuade gender-affirming health care.
The far-right conspiracy theorist throws in an anti-trans slur for good measure.
Gender-affirming care is banned for transgender youth when it's mainly cisgender people who use it, and when it has a significantly lower regret rate than all other major surgeries, tattoos, and children.
The crimes have claimed the lives of at least 18 gay, lesbian, and transgender people.
The Jackass star planned to get the surgery done as a joke, until he actually had a conversation with a transgender person.
Out of the 151 breast reductions that were performed in 2019 on American minors, 146 (97 percent) were performed on cisgender males.
DeWine's veto is likely to be overridden by the state legislature, as HB68 passed both the state House and Senate with a supermajority.
Florida's Republican governor, debating Democratic challenger Charlie Crist, also defended the state's "don't say gay" law.
Walton's body had been discovered in 1988 and remained unidentified since then.
The Republican nominee for vice president compared gender-affirming care to conversion therapy in a recent interview with gay conservative podcaster Tim Dillon.
The presidential aspirant also called open military service by transgender Americans 'absurd.'
Amid outcry, Huckabee resigned from the CMA Foundation's board of directors one day after he was elected.
The OITNB star shows grace under fire on The Wendy Williams Show.
He's called gender-affirming care "chemical castration."