gender affirming care
The Supreme Court justice accused her colleagues of abandoning children "to political whims."
Future access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth is in the hands of the Supreme Court — and the stakes couldn't be higher.
"There was something disturbing about waking up from anesthesia as a new person while a family prepared to say their final goodbyes to their loved one."
The judge also suggested that treating gender dysphoria could be a slippery slope to depriving the Missouri legislature of its ability to regulate drugs.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Republican Ken Paxton sued the Dallas physician for allegedly violating a 2023 state ban on transgender care for minors.
A conservative group filed an amicus brief in a case on gender-affirming health care currently before the high court.
The GOP nominee pushed a false claim about surgeries for children similar to one he recently pushed at a far-right group's event.
The incumbent attorney general has made his state unsafe for the LGBTQ+ community during his time in office.
The administration recently came out against gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth, which advocates call both “rare and necessary.”
The federal judge's decision overturns restrictions for puberty blockers and hormones for minors and adults.