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Trump orders NIH to study gender transition ‘regret.’ Here's what we already know about it
Trump wants to study transgender people's "regret," but people are more likely to regret having children than gender-affirming surgery.
Gender-affirming surgeries are mostly performed on cisgender people: 'Bitter irony'
Out of the 151 breast reductions that were performed in 2019 on American minors, 146 (97 percent) were performed on cisgender males.
JD Vance really wants you to know he's 'not gay' while lying about transgender youth
The Republican nominee for vice president compared gender-affirming care to conversion therapy in a recent interview with gay conservative podcaster Tim Dillon.
Insurer illegally discriminated by denying trans teens coverage for top surgery, court rules
The decision came in a case involving Premera Blue Cross.
Why do inmates have access to gender-affirming care? Those Trump ads you keep seeing debunked
Republicans have spent $65 million on attack ads that target 0.6 percent of the population. Here's all the context they're missing.
What is gender-affirming care, who uses it, and do they regret it?
Gender-affirming care is banned for transgender youth when it's mainly cisgender people who use it, and when it has a significantly lower regret rate than all other major surgeries, tattoos, and children.
Ron DeSantis Calls Gender-Affirming Care 'Castration' in Debate
Florida's Republican governor, debating Democratic challenger Charlie Crist, also defended the state's "don't say gay" law.
‘Don’t Say Gay’ Gov. Ron DeSantis Wins Reelection in Florida
He's called gender-affirming care "chemical castration."
San Francisco Health Program to Expand Transgender Coverage
Healthy San Francisco, which provides care to uninsured residents, will no longer exclude certain transition-related procedures.
More Teens Get Breast Implants Than Trans Top Surgery
Despite a lack of data, anti-trans proponents often center narratives of regret to dissuade gender-affirming health care.
Another State Ends Discrimination in Trans Health Care
Washington becomes the seventh state to forbid insurance companies from denying health care to transgender citizens.
Starbucks Accused of Threatening Gender-Affirming Health Care Benefits
Employees made the allegations in a complaint filed with the U.S. labor board.
Christian Univ. Adjusts, Stands By Trans Housing Policy
George Fox University will now allow students who have undergone specific gender-confirming surgeries to be housed in accordance with their gender. Others will be housed according to their sex assigned at birth.
Americans Don’t Want Politicians Focusing on Transgender Issues, Survey Finds
Most Americans also believe that lawmakers don’t know enough about transgender issues to make policies.
House GOP advances Marjorie Taylor Greene’s transphobic bill banning gender-affirming care for trans youth
“This is just another attempt by extremist Republican politicians to further their anti-transgender agenda,” U.S. Rep. Mark Takano said.
Masculinity, in 'crisis'? Or just a spectacle?
Opinion: Is masculinity — the normative social roles, behaviors, and actions perceived as attributes of men — in crisis? Or is the crisis actually the steadily growing realization that masculinity is just spectacle?
Abortion and trans rights need more than a Kamala Harris victory: 'Legalization does not equal access'
While its CEO has a “best case” and “worst case” in mind, there will still be plenty of work for Elevated Access no matter the outcome of the November elections.
Andrew Sullivan represents everything wrong with the gay rights movement
Cultural critic Marcie Bianco excavates Sullivan's anti-trans, anti-left assertions in The New York Times that people are being forced to transition to erase gay people and that the Progress Flag excludes anyone not on the far left.
