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The lead author of an eye-opening new report from the Trevor Project tells The Advocate about the "stigma" intersex youth face, how it impacts them, and how to rectify it.
The report comes from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, headed by Adm. Rachel Levine.
He called the care experimental and claimed that to protect children, access to gender-affirming care required his intervention.
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.
A new report details the dangerous experiementation that's been going on in fetal engineering, in which doctors are using a synthetic steroid off-label to prevent lesbian, bisexual, intersex, and tomboy babies.
Trans people need to be evaluated for BRCA genes. Here's why.
While efforts to ban or severely limit access to gender-affirming care are blunt and sweeping, gender-affirming care is anything but, writes Human Rights Watch's Yasemin Smallens.
At the beginning of Pride Month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's office and the state's surgeon general Joseph Ladapo have come out against providing gender-affirming care for trans people on Medicaid and transgender youth.
May C. Lau, a doctor in Dallas, is being sued for violating Texas's law against gender-affirming care to trans minors.
Solely linking transition with surgery is wrong on so many fronts, writes Kyle Knight of Human Rights Watch.
Our 101 guide to gender identities and sexual orientations.
The resolution denounces medically unnecessary surgeries and other forms of mistreatment.
"Medical intervention for trans people, like all others, should be undertaken based on individual informed consent," writes Kyle Knight, co-interim director of Human Rights Watch's LGBT Rights Program.
The regulation affects both transgender adults and youth.
Hormone blockers for minors, the trans movement's new frontier.
Kelly Goonan writes that asking for pronouns, gender-inclusive language, and specialized training can make a world of difference in healthcare for LGBTQ+ patients.
A day after South Dakota rejected a similar bill, Ohio lawmakers are ready to introduce theirs.
The law involves children who are housed at host homes.
