Medicare, Medicaid agency demands info on gender-affirming care for trans youth
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services falsely claims such care is not evidence-based.
May 30, 2025
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services falsely claims such care is not evidence-based.
The Republican-passed House bill goes beyond limiting access for Medicaid recipients.
It would have terrible consequences for transgender Americans, impoverished LGBTQ+ people, and those living with HIV.
One bill requiring this is awaiting the governor's signature in Texas, while a Pennsylvania legislator is proposing a similar measure.
Republicans are advancing a "cruel reconciliation bill," Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano says.
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At the die-in, while a narrator slowly read through a list of devastating health outcomes that HHS funding cuts will have on the LGBTQ+ community.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson told Columbia that its ban on the discredited practice of conversion therapy was unconstitutional, but critics questioned the timing and motivation of the letter.
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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little," FDR famously said.
The city’s mayor, who is up for reelection, says it’s important for leaders to "feel the pain" of those being affected by Trump’s agenda, including in the LGBTQ+ community.
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A lot of states are passing laws that target the LGBTQ+ community — but these 15 are the absolute worst.
“We just have to win, and then we can come back to who we are as a country. And we can do that without sidelining trans issues for political expediency,” Pelosi told The Advocate.
Gender-affirming care is banned for transgender youth when it's mainly cisgender people who use it, and when it has a significantly lower regret rate than all other major surgeries, tattoos, and children.
Americans have paid more for their medications than other countries for years, but that’s changing.
The GOP senator doesn't think a ban on sex discrimination in health care should include gender identity, and he's making some baseless assertions to argue his case.
Civil rights groups are denouncing the new law while offering resources to families affected. The law targets not only trans youth, but restricts all trans people from accessing public funds for care.
Gov. Henry McMaster is likely to sign a gender-affirming care ban into law, but families in South Carolina still have options.
The bans for state employees and Medicaid recipients, respectively, are unconstitutional, the Fourth Circuit ruled.