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Judge will rule against Kennedy’s declaration on gender-affirming care
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (416+ words) A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that asserted gender-affirming care for young transgender people does not meet medical standards of care." A coalition of states…...
Trans rights are once again at the Supreme Court
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (462+ words) Good morning. A new study compared 23 monkey species that demonstrate recurring same-sex behavior to 468 without. Researchers concluded that being gay is "part of the normal social life of primates." And as one colleague said, I refuse to believe there are…...
Proposed HHS rule on gender-affirming care radically expands use of Medicare, Medicaid as policy weapons
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (123+ words) By Carmel Shachar and Nicole Huberfeld Shachar is an assistant clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School. Huberfeld is Edward R. Utley professor of health law at Boston University School of Law & School of Public Health. Last Thursday, the Trump…...
What's happening to gender-affirming care for trans youth?
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (718+ words) Good morning. There's a ton of news today. Make sure you keep scrolling for Lizzy Lawrence's FDA exclusive on political appointees interfering with the drug review process. I asked one of my colleagues for a sports analogy to describe Lizzy's…...
House passes bill to ban gender-affirming care for young people
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (193+ words) STAT is a media company focused on finding and telling compelling stories about health, medicine, and scientific discovery. We produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces. We tell our stories…...
House set to vote on bills to ban gender-affirming care for young people
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (103+ words) Republicans in Congress are making a renewed push before the end of the year to pass major federal restrictions to gender-affirming care for trans minors." "It's been an all-hands-on-deck effort to restrict this access," said Lindsey Dawson, director of LGBTQ…...
Early-career trans researchers reconsider their futures amid lost funding and fear
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1329+ words) Medical student Tyler Harvey was planning to take the high-stakes Step 1 exam in about a week. It's the first and perhaps most difficult hurdle on the way to becoming a doctor. But after taking a practice exam, their score wasn't…...
We wrote the HHS review on treatment for minors with gender dysphoria. We hope our critics actually read our report
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (240+ words) By Evgenia Abbruzzese, Alex Byrne, Farr Curlin, Moti Gorin, Kristopher Kaliebe, Michael K. Laidlaw, Kathleen McDeavitt, Leor Sapir, and Yuan Zhang The nine authors wrote the recent HHS review of medical care for minors with gender dysphoria. The Department of Health…...
HHS names authors and releases peer review comments for gender dysphoria report
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (745+ words) By Theresa Gaffney and Annalisa Merelli Proponents of gender-affirming care suspect that the updated report will be used as justification for impending proposed rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid that aim to withhold federal funds from going toward…...
Advocates decry intersex exceptions in trans health bans
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (797+ words) The scars have been there as long as Emory Hufbauer can remember." When Hufbauer was a baby, doctors performed an operation that Hufbauer describes generally as one that took away their fertility and their ability to produce their own hormones;…...