Anti-Trans Laws Will Have a Chilling Effect on Medicine

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March 31, 2022

Diversity Anti-Trans Laws Will Have a Chilling Effect on Medicine I am a future psychiatrist hoping to care for transgender people. But I fear these laws will make it difficult to do so By Ashley Andreou

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Policy Laws Vilifying Transgender Children and Their Families Are Abusive Recent measures in Florida, Texas and elsewhere serve to traumatize trans children and their families, uphold ideas that trans children are inherently troubled, and go against medical advice By Tey Meadow,Kristina R. Olson

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Why Anti-Trans Laws Are Anti-Science Bills that restrict access to gender-affirming health care ignore research By The Editors | June 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "On this year's Transgender Day of Visibility, we should be celebrating the accomplishments, honoring the resilience and advocating loudly for the rights of people who are trans. Yet the growing onslaught of anti-trans legislation targeting the health care decisions that families make with their doctors threatens to cast a shadow over this day." Ashley Andreou, medical student at Georgetown University

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