American Medical Association (AMA)

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  Should doctors perform surgery on intersex children?

  Tuesday, July 25, 2017

  "If there is a secret to raising healthy children, it is to accept and focus on what they are, instead of what they're not."

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  Rhode Island bans ex-gay ‘conversion therapy’ torture aimed at LGBT youth

  Thursday, July 20, 2017

  The law bars providers from advertising or engaging in conversion therapy for those under 18.

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  AMA advises surgery should not be a requirement for birth certificate changes

  Monday, June 9, 2014

  CHICAGO -- The American Medical Association on Monday said transgender people should be able to switch the sex designation on their birth certificates without having sex-change surgery. Most states make the operations a prerequisite, but a…

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  Baldwin leads 85 lawmakers calling for end to blood donation ban for gay men

  Friday, August 2, 2013

  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is leading a group of 85 House and Senate lawmakers criticizing what she's says is the sluggish pace the nation's top health officials have taken at reevaluating blood donation policies…

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  AMA says it opposes FDA lifetime ban on gay men as blood donors

  Thursday, June 20, 2013

  The American Medical Association, the largest association of physicians in the U.S., voted Tuesday to oppose a decades long ban by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which prohibits gay men from donating blood, reported ABC…

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  AMA says ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ gay marriage bans leave LGBT families vulnerable

  Tuesday, November 10, 2009

  The nation’s largest doctors’ group has agreed to join efforts to repeal the military‘s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, Associated Press reports: The American Medical Association says the ‘don’t ask, don’t-tell’ law creates an ethical dilemma…

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