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Under the administration’s latest guidance, reporting a trans patient’s care may no longer violate HIPAA — and that’s exactly the problem, providers say.
Trump wants to study transgender people's "regret," but people are more likely to regret having children than gender-affirming surgery.
“This is a dangerous move,” Jirair Ratevosian, an associate research scientist at Yale University, told The Advocate.
“I never said that,” he claimed. The record says otherwise.
The case stems from a Texas company that argued covering PrEP violated its religious freedoms, claiming the medication encourages “homosexual behavior.”
A spokesperson for Polis told The Advocate that “Governor Polis has not changed his view as a whole on RFK Jr. or on the Governor’s previously stated concerns regarding some of RFK Jr’s positions."
RFK Jr. is an anti-trans conspiracy theorist and vaccine denialist who has been repudiated by his famous family.
Also, while the Alabama doctor says he’s never treated transgender patients, records reveal that he did offer surgical care to transgender men.
Opinion: Kennedy has come under fire from Congress, Wall Street, and scores of health care professionals, all warning about his incompetence, writes John Casey.
Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable characteristic,” former HHS official Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
Kennedy has denied that he ever said chemicals cause gender dysphoria or that HIV doesn't cause AIDS — but he did.
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans are much more likely to try tobacco products than their straight and cisgender peers, according to a new report from the surgeon general.
We're really starting to wonder who has the brain worm here?
The suit comes from notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
A new federal letter gives Republican-led states another road map to cut off gender-affirming care for minors.
“We have all the tools to end HIV. It just makes me sad to see a lot of this infrastructure being systematically dismantled across the country," one advisor told The Advocate.
These closures are part of a plan to cut 20,000 positions at HHS.
Davante Lewis talks to The Advocate ahead of a vote to remove him from his vice chairman role on Louisiana's Public Service Commission — all for defending former HHS official Dr. Rachel Levine.
Pages devoted to HIV and AIDS, assisted reproductive technologies, and youth health risks had disappeared from government websites due to Donald Trump's "gender ideology" order.
The report comes from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, headed by Adm. Rachel Levine.
As the rest of the world scratches their heads at Trump's bizarre and unqualified cabinet picks, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said the choices are "sending signals that you better go back if you're here illegally."
