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Judge Temporarily Blocks Idaho’s Ban On Transgender Youth Health Care

27Dec

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Judge Temporarily Blocks Idaho’s Ban On Transgender Youth Health Care

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Pregnant Trans Men Mistreated By U.S. Health Care System

This article was published in partnership with The 19th, a newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy.Three days after Roe v. Wade was overturned, Sam Guido gave birth to his first child. His doctors, unsure of what was still legal, didn’t prescribe misoprostol — a drug used in medication abortions — to help with contractions. That was another blow, another way in which Guido felt he wasn’t in control of his labor. Guido hadn’t wanted to give birth in a hospital at all — he was afraid to be there. As a transmasculine and nonbinary person, they have faced the same ignorance and discrimination in medical institutions that many trans people in the United States experience. But a home birth just wasn’t an option; health insurance wouldn’t cover that or midwife care, and Guido’s apartme...

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Tennessee can enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the state, for now, after a federal appeals court ruling was handed down Saturday. The ruling was part of a civil lawsuit brought by a Tennessee couple, their teenage transgender daughter, two anonymous families and a physician. The group is challenging the new law, signed in March, which bars trans youth from receiving hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender-affirming surgeries. “The challengers have not shown that a right to new medical treatments is ‘deeply rooted in our history and traditions’ and thus beyond the democratic process to regulate,” wrote Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jeffrey Sutton, a former President George W. Bush appointee. He cited the 1997 Washington v. Glucksberg Supreme Court op...