CNN (7/25, McPhillips) reports, “At least 20 states have enacted policies restricting healthcare for transgender youth, and the loss of gender-affirming care clinics in those states has dramatically increased the average travel time to a” clinician, investigators concluded.
Healio (7/25, Monostra) reports, “Government-enacted restrictions have resulted in about half of U.S. children and adolescents aged 10 to 17 years living more than one hour from a clinic offering gender-confirming care,” investigators concluded in the findings of a research letter published in JAMA. The study identified “271 gender-confirming clinics…of which 25.8% were located in states with restrictions,” such as “Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.” What’s more, “an estimated 89,100 transgender adolescents live in those states, representing about 30% of all transgender youths in the U.S.”
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— “State restrictions on gender-affirming care for children have doubled the average travel time to a provider in the US, study shows,” Deidre McPhillips, CNN, July 25, 2023