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Experts, providers, elected officials, and people with lived experience discuss how election outcomes — up and down the ballot — might impact gender-affirming care in Pittsburgh and beyond.
DeSantis is still going after queer youth.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled against an antiquated anti-abortion law, with justices issuing a scathing rebuke of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision.
"Gender identity is real," Judge Robert Hinkle wrote in finding the ban violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
The new rules go into effect later this month.
Gov. Wes Moore also signed legislation protecting abortion rights.
Transgender Washington, D.C., residents will now be able to purchase insurance policies that include coverage for transition-related care on the D.C. health exchange or through Medicaid benefits.
Failure to cover such care is unconstitutional, says a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Denial of the coverage "invidiously discriminates on the basis of sex and transgender status," a federal judge wrote.
Two trans Iowans had sued over the state's exclusion of such procedures.
Transgender surgeries are life-saving for people suffering from gender dysphoria. That's why the ACLU of Minnesota is fighting to lift the state's ban on the use of Medicaid funds for them.
The lawsuit is among the first to challenge state laws on the basis of civil rights provisions written into the Affordable Care Act.
Texas Medicaid will no longer cover gender affirming care for transgender adults as of tomorrow.
West Virginia's Medicaid program and its state employee health plan both refuse to pay for gender-confirmation care.
Daniel Redman of the National Center for Lesbian Rights tells you why Medicaid equality is imperative for LGBT seniors.
"More people are going to get sick and more people are going to die."
The state is working on a proposed rule change to its Medicaid program that would bar trans people from having their gender-affirming care covered.
We are fighting for our lives. And that is not hyperbole.
