The AP (12/29, Schoenbaum) reports transgender-identifying youths are sometimes sent to inpatient wards inconsistent with their gender identities. Notably, “North Carolina lacks uniform treatment standards across hospitals and runs low on money and staff with proper training to treat transgender kids in crisis,” while “last-resort measures to support patients…often fail to help them, and sometimes make things worse.”
Meanwhile, “a nationwide dearth of pediatric psychiatric beds was compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw an unprecedented number of people seeking emergency mental health services, according to a report by the American Psychiatric Association.”
Related Links:
— “For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma,” Hannah SchoenBaum, Associated Press, December 29, 2023