Transgender / Transsexual

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21 states sue over Trump’s attacks on gender-affirming care insurance coverage

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Nearly two dozen Democratic-led states sued the Trump administrationWednesday over a new rule barring federal Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Massachusetts, challenges a rule the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued last month barring states from using federal Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program funds for what the agency calls “experimental and life-altering sex-rejecting procedures.” But the coalition of 21 states and Washington, D.C., alleges that CMS exceeded its legal authority by excluding otherwise lawful medical treatments from federal reimbursement. “Contrary to Congress’s clear directive, the Rule strips the states of their statutorily authorized role as […]

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Renowned NYC medical center caves to Trump on trans youth care just as DOJ loses in court

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Mount Sinai Health System has agreed to stop providing gender-affirming medical care to minors under a settlement with the Trump administration, making one of New York’s largest hospital systems the latest provider to retreat as federal officials use investigations, subpoenas, and funding pressure to reshape transgender people’s access to health care nationwide. The Justice Department announced Friday that Mount Sinai will cease providing puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and other transition-related care to minors. The hospital will also pay an unspecified monetary penjalty and dedicate $2 million to free medical care for people who say they suffered harmful consequences from gender-affirming treatment received as children. DOJ acknowledged that its […]

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Trump administration report links trans support to political violence

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The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has released a new report claiming that support for transgender rights is associated with “left-wing authoritarianism” and a greater willingness to justify political violence. Critics have dismissed the 20-page report released on 27 August as “junk science” and accused the administration of using taxpayer money to manufacture a justification for targeting trans people and their allies. The Human Rights Campaign released a statement the same day as the report, writing: “The entities that conducted the supposed ‘research,’ the Manhattan Institute and the Network Contagion Research Institute, are both known conservative-leaning think tanks with track records of producing reports that […]

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Republicans are using anti-trans issues in a desperate attempt to motivate their base

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By every account, Republicans are facing a disaster in this fall’s elections. Donald Trump is incredibly unpopular and seems intent on doing everything possible to increase his party’s unpopularity. The odds are very high that Republicans will lose the House, and Democrats are increasingly optimistic about capturing the Senate as well, with competitive races even in deep-red strongholds like Texas and Iowa.  Faced with looming electoral disaster, Republicans are turning to their old standby, anti-LGBTQ+ attacks. This year, the focus is on anti-trans attacks, including anti-trans ballot initiatives in four states. Ballot measures in Washington and Arizona would prohibit trans athletes from participating in sports, while a ballot […]

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Trans band teacher accepted an Iowa school job offer. Days before classes, the board blocked his hiring

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A transgender music teacher in Iowa says a school board blocked his hiring days before the school year began. Ace Rios told Omaha CBS affiliate KMTV that he had accepted an offer to teach music at a high school in Tabor, Iowa. But the Fremont-Mills Community School Board deadlocked 2-2 on approving his contract. One board member was absent, and under board rules, the tie meant the motion failed. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. An agenda shows Rios’ name among eight new hires considered by the board on August 19. The […]

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Texas quietly ended policy to provide trans health care to inmates

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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has quietly removed several documents from its website pertaining to the care of trans inmates, according to new reporting by Transistics. That includes the long-established policy that allowed trans people to receive non-surgical gender-affirming care while incarcerated in Texas. Earlier this year, the Trump administration ordered federal prisons to strip trans inmates of their hormone therapy healthcare. That drew alarm from experts who suggested the move violated a court injunction, and one expert in trans healthcare, Dr. Carl Streed, told The Advocate at the time, “It’s essentially saying that a form of evidence-based care will no […]

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Meet 3 transgender student-athletes fighting for the right to play

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Despite ever-growing food and fuel prices, an ailing health care system, and violent conflicts in the U.S. and abroad, the far right has decided to continue to wage war on transgender student-athletes. And while politicians debate the topic within our nation’s highest offices, many forget about the real human beings who are affected. Becky Pepper-Jackson When West Virginia House Bill 3293, also known as the Save Women’s Sports Act, became law in 2021, Becky Pepper-Jackson, a track-and-field athlete who identifies as trans, and her family challenged the bill in court. Since then, the battle over whether schools should allow trans student athletes […]

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Ohio blocks trans people from changing their gender marker on ID in sudden move

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Ohio’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) has stopped allowing people to change the gender marker on driver’s licences and state ID cards to reflect someone’s gender identity, instead requiring the marker to match a birth certificate or passport. Previously, Ohioans could change the gender marker on their licence or ID by submitting a form to the BMV, however that process has been immediately discontinued. Ohio joins a growing list of states, including Wyoming, where changes to gender markers on ID are either banned or more difficult to make. BMV spokesperson Lindsey Bohrer told the Toledo Blade: “The BMV will record the sex that is stated […]

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Massachusetts vows to fund trans kids’ healthcare after Medicaid ban

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Massachusetts has vowed to assume the full cost of gender-affirming healthcarefor transgender children and teenagers covered by the state’s Medicaid and CHIP programs if a new Trump administration rule takes effect this October. The federal rule, finalised Tuesday (11 August), would prohibit Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program funds from being used for gender-affirming healthcare for people aged 18 and under. The Trump administration’s Medicaid administrator, Dr Mehmet Oz, described the treatments as harmful and “sex-rejecting procedures” in a statement, while major medical organisations continue to support gender-affirming care as appropriate treatment for some transgender young people. The federal government currently covers around 50 per cent […]

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