The study found that while the potential long-term risks of this care might be uncertain, the short-term effects of ...

As debates over gender-affirming care intensify across many countries, lawmakers, physicians, and human rights advocates risk ...

In 1976, a woman from Roanoke, Va., named Rhoda received a prescription for two drugs: estrogen and progestin. Twelve months later, a local reporter noted Rhoda’s surprisingly soft skin and visible ...

Democrat Sens. Adam Schiff and Mazie Hirono compared military testosterone screening to "gender-affirming care" and faced ...

This story was originally published in June 2023. These dangerous bans pathologize transness as an illness or write it off as a “phase.” Often, the narratives underpinning these dangerous bans, ...

Advocate Health is pulling back on its gender-affirming care for minors, joining a growing list of hospital systems in Illinois and across the country cutting the services amid threats to their ...

Trump administration pauses plans to tie Medicaid funding to pediatric gender-affirming care as access remains uneven across ...

Gender-affirming care refers to an individualized health care model that prioritizes encouraging and supporting a person’s gender identity. Before puberty, this care includes things like using the ...

In late January, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith unveiled policies on gender-affirming care and parental rights. These policies want to change access to medical treatments, participation in athletics, ...

Daniel’s birth certificate is marked “female,” but Daniel is nonbinary — not exclusively male nor female. “I’m masculine leaning,” says the 18-year-old. The disconnect between Daniel’s gender identity ...

Some trans youth in the United States are speaking out about the importance of gender-affirming care. That’s because in certain states, it’s no longer going to be available to them. Some states have ...