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Medicaid Spent $118 Million On Gender-Transition Drugs and Surgeries For Minors From 2019 to 2023, CBO Finds
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (358+ words) For the new study, Jared Lane K. Maeda, an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, examined data on 80,546 youth identifying at transgender and covered by Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. He looked at data from 2019 to 2023. He…...
History Is Repeating Itself In the Battle Over Conversion Therapy
1+ week, 1+ day ago (387+ words) This is a guest post by Australian psychologist Roberto D'Angelo (no relation to Robin DiAngelo), adapted from his recent paper, "Trans is not the new gay." Gender-affirming medical and surgical interventions for young people have been championed by medical and…...
Tensions Flare Within Plastic Surgery Group Over New Policy Opposing Youth Gender Surgeries
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1379+ words) According to a two-page open letter that was signed by seven members of this youth gender surgery task force and sent to the ASPS board on Monday, the board cut the task force out of the loop when it came…...
No, the Data Hasn't Shown that 'Transgenderism Is Effectively Over,' as Matt Walsh Trumpeted
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (651+ words) Trans identification is in free fall among the young." If only either of these men had read the chart they were so gleefully trumpeting, they might have noticed something amiss: The chart didn't say that the data in question represented…...
Why I Use Trans People’s Preferred Pronouns
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (695+ words) Transgender civil rights are engulfed in a war of words'and a war over words. It was Hamlet who summed it up best when he said, "Words, words, words." As a reporter who has positioned himself within the sometimes lonely, circumspect…...