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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris supports a policy that gives transgender people who rely on the government for medical care — including those in prison and immigration detention — access to transition treatment, including surgical care

Yarden Silveira was a 23 year old male transgender who suffered immensely due to vaginoplasty and had many complications eventually resulting in death. The doctors refused to help him and would not consider his desire to fix his surgery. He said he had wished he never had the surgery or if he knew what he knew today would never do this. Since the age of 15 he wanted to be a woman. Transitioning and detransitioning are deeply personal processes, and it's crucial that individuals receive support that aligns with their needs and choices at every stage. If a person experiences...

America's biggest children's hospital has announced plans to halt its gender reassignment treatment for children as the deadline to comply with a new Texas law looms and damaging claims from whistleblowers emerge. Mark Wallace, CEO of Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), on Wednesday wrote in an internal hospital memo that it would stop prescribing hormones to minors and help them get gender-affirming care, as it is known, across state lines. Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into the Houston-based facility, saying puberty blockers and other trans 'medical experiments' violated state rules. A whistleblower claims the hospital was...

Doctors who perform gender reassignment surgery on children under the age of 18 will face felony charges if the bill becomes law. TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — “This bill seeks to ban surgery and drugs for those under the age of 18 and gives doctors who participate in such treatments a third degree felony,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Randy Fine (R-Brevard), began. “Additionally, it clears up custody situations in relation to these procedures; it blocks public funds for these treatments for adults; and it prohibits Florida residents from changing their gender on their birth certificate from what it is at birth,” he...