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Top surgery significantly improves quality of life for transmasculine young adults
The positive effects of top surgery have been studied in trans adults before, but this study focused specifically on trans young people.
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Right wing troll targets another hospital for helping transgender people
The state’s anti-LGBTQ governor is threatening to launch an investigation based on a Twitter thread.
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Florida bans Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming healthcare
Under the new rules, puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and surgical procedures for the treatment of gender dysphoria will not be covered.
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Florida medical board votes to advance gender affirming health care ban
“The proposal is based on clear animus towards transgender people as well as junk science,” opponents said about the measure that would require adults to wait 24 hours to get gender affirming care.
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Biden administration announces new policy to strengthen transgender healthcare protections
“We want to make sure that whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you live, however you wish to live your life, that you have access to the care that you need.”
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Starbucks managers allegedly threaten trans healthcare benefits to discourage unionizing
One employee characterized the threats as “fearmongering.”
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Trump-appointed judge claims doctors are changing babies’ gender as reason to block Obamacare rule
The judge ruled that a Christian organization can discriminate against adults because doctors have a secret agenda to make infants transgender.
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Starbucks to pay travel costs for trans employees getting gender-affirming care
Starbucks isn’t the only employer helping people travel to get abortions or gender-affirming care as states attack the right to health care access.
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Supportive mom Amber Briggle releases emotional PSA defending her trans son from bully politicians
“Trans kids don’t have a political agenda. They are just kids. They just want to be left alone,” Amber Briggle says in the video.
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Biden admin calls for program to help provide more gender-affirming care for trans people with HIV
The call comes as part of the Department of Health & Human Services celebration of the Affordable Care Act’s 12th anniversary.