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More than 20 percent of trans youth lost access to gender-affirming care under new state laws
More than 20 percent of transgender children and adolescents in the U.S. can no longer legally access gender-affirming health care because of new state laws that bar doctors from providing certain medications or services to minors, according to a Wednesday report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a national LGBTQ advocacy organization. Of the more than 300,000 transgender 13- to 17-year-olds currently living in the U.S., close to one in four — around 66,600 people — have lost access to gender-affirming health care. This is due to a slate of recently enacted laws and policies that target the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapies and surgeries to treat gender dysphoria, the HRC

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