Republican Dan Crenshaw Says Gender-Affirming Care Is ‘The Hill We Will Die On’
Republicans have gone all in on getting the government involved in parents’ decisions about their children.
June 15, 2023
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American Medical Association: Do the Right Thing, SCOTUS
Patrice A. Harris, M.D., says the high court must protect all patients and all workers from anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
October 8, 2019
Influential Medical Group Now Opposes Gay Blood Ban
The AMA is now urging the FDA to revise its 30-year-old discriminatory policy that prohibits gay men from donating blood.
June 20, 2013
Lesbian Doctor Is New Canadian Medical Association President
Anna Reid, MD, the first openly gay person to head the CMA, says her sexual orientation has never stood in her way.
August 26, 2012
Florida Subpoenas Medical Associations Over Trans Youth Care
It comes as the state's GOP-controlled legislature has passed a number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills this session.
April 25, 2023
Medical Associations Request Probe Into Gender-Affirming Care Threats
After far-right online influencers aimed their thinly veiled bigotry at hospitals across the country, trolls directed attacks at those facilities.
October 4, 2022
AMA Eases Gender Change Requirements
The American Medical Association follows in the steps of the World Health Organization, making it easier for transgender people to obtain accurate identification.
June 10, 2014
American Medical Association Strengthens Support for Gender-Affirming Care
At a time when access is under attack, the American Medical Association has committed to opposing criminal and legal penalties for those who provide or receive the care.
June 13, 2023
Global Doctors Approve New Trans-Affirming Health Care Guidelines
The aim is to increase doctors’ knowledge and sensitivity towards transgender people and their unique health issues.
October 20, 2015
Meet the Gay Combat Vet Who Will Run the American Medical Association
Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld on LGBTQ+ health and his plans to protect trans and queer youth.
April 11, 2023
American Medical Assoc.: No Valid Reason to Ban Trans Troops
The American Medical Association excoriates Trump's ban.
April 5, 2018
America's Doctors: Transgender Military Ban is Pointless
The American Medical Association weighs in -- against the ban on military service by out transgender Americans.
June 8, 2015
Texas Leads New Assault on Federal Transgender Health Policy
Wisconsin, Kentucky, Nebraska and Kansas joined Texas in a new lawsuit, filed with the Christian Medical and Dental Association, and Franciscan Alliance of Indiana.
August 24, 2016
New German, Swiss, and Austrian guidelines recommend gender-affirming care, slam Cass Review
The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when U.S. politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.
March 12, 2025
Threat to Affordable Care Act's Preventive Coverage Puts Public Health at Risk
A federal judge’s ruling in Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra. is a deeply flawed decision that flies in the face of sound public health policy, according to the American Medical Association's president.
April 17, 2023
Over 80 House Democrats demand Trump rescind gender-affirming care ban: 'We want trans kids to live'
The letter, introduced by Rep. Becca Balint and signed by 89 House Democrats, asserts that the ban "threatens the lives and well-being of the young people who need this care, which is supported by every major medical association."
February 27, 2025
HRC, GLMA release inaugural Healthcare Equality Index
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association will release today, October 1, the inaugural edition of the Healthcare Equality Index, a new annual report that assesses hospitals nationwide on a range of criteria relevant to LGBT patients and consumers. In the tradition of HRC's influential Corporate Equality Index, which evaluates American companies' gay-friendly policies and practices, the Healthcare Equality Index is the first comprehensive look at how the medical industry responds to the needs of the LGBT community.
October 2, 2007
Texas GOP Votes to Halt Gender-Affirming Care for Existing Patients
Because the cruelty of taking essential medical care away from people who rely on it seems to be the point of Republican politicians, who are not doctors, in 2023.
April 4, 2023
Gender-Affirming Surgeries Have Risen, Likely Due to Better Insurance: Study
Top surgery is more common than genital surgery, the study notes.
August 28, 2023
Donald Trump’s latest anti-transgender attack on Kamala Harris ‘reeks of desperation,’ advocates say
The ad features former and current nonbinary and transgender members of the Biden-Harris administration.
September 24, 2024
Gender-affirming care ban leaves Trump with ‘blood on his hands,’ group says, joining others in outrage
“Only eight days into his second term, President Donald Trump has blood on his hands,” executive director of Advocates for Trans Equality Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen said earlier this week.
January 30, 2025