'Denying someone medically-necessary healthcare simply because you don't approve of who they are is textbook discrimination.'
, more Texas parents of transgender children are now"looking to get treatment out of state—or move altogether."Chase Strangio, deputy director for transgender justice at the ACLU, called the proposal"deadly."
Major national medical associations including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association support gender-affirming care for youths. As Human Rights Campaign state legislative director and senior counsel Cathryn Oakley said in a statement Tuesday, new research has found that such treatment"reduces the risk of moderate or severe depression by 60% and suicidal thoughts by 73%" in transgender young people.
to bar pregnant people from leaving the state to obtain abortion care, as thousands of residents have since Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill banning abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy in 2019. Since the law was signed, a Planned Parenthood clinic at the Missouri-Illinois border has reported that at least 10,644 Missouri residents have received care there.
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