Legislation restricting gender-affirming care for transgender youth: Politics eclipse healthcare

In the past two years, in 25 US states, bills have been introduced to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for minors. Some have already become law. We show how these bills, while purporting to “protect” trans youth, are really an assault on their ability, along with their parents’ and p...

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Autores principales: Kraschel, Katherine L., Chen, Alexander, Turban, Jack L., Cohen, I. Glenn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9418844/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35977463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100719
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description In the past two years, in 25 US states, bills have been introduced to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for minors. Some have already become law. We show how these bills, while purporting to “protect” trans youth, are really an assault on their ability, along with their parents’ and physicians’, to make healthcare choices and to receive medically necessary care. We discuss the evidence-based guidelines for the care of these patients, the positions taken by major medical societies against these bills, and the landscape of legal challenges that are being brought against these enacted laws.
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spelling pubmed-94188442022-08-28 Legislation restricting gender-affirming care for transgender youth: Politics eclipse healthcare Kraschel, Katherine L. Chen, Alexander Turban, Jack L. Cohen, I. Glenn Cell Rep Med Commentary In the past two years, in 25 US states, bills have been introduced to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for minors. Some have already become law. We show how these bills, while purporting to “protect” trans youth, are really an assault on their ability, along with their parents’ and physicians’, to make healthcare choices and to receive medically necessary care. We discuss the evidence-based guidelines for the care of these patients, the positions taken by major medical societies against these bills, and the landscape of legal challenges that are being brought against these enacted laws. Elsevier 2022-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9418844/ /pubmed/35977463 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100719 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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