For trans youth in the Hudson Valley, care is getting harder to find

Federal restrictions on gender-affirming care are creating longer waits and uncertainty for transgender youth and their ...

NYT: Six Major Hospitals Reach Agreements with the DOJ to Halt Gender-Affirming Care to Transgender Youth

At least six major hospitals in the U.S. reached formal agreements with President Trump’s Justice Department to stop providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth. That’s according to The New ...
STAT

Why affirming trans identities can be critical for suicide prevention counseling

Theresa covers substance use and addiction and co-writes the Morning Rounds newsletter. You can reach Theresa on Signal at theresagaff.97. Specialized counseling services for LGBTQ+ youth will ...
People's World

Massachusetts trans activists ‘Act Up! Fight Back!’ against health care attacks

BOSTON—Nine Massachusetts activists were arrested at state Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office. Administering hormones on themselves in the office on September 2, the activists accused the ...
Psychology Today

The Influence of Social Media for Trans Youth

Social media is an evolving form of communication that is now easily accessible to and incredibly influential of teens today. In fact, seven in ten teens across the country say they use Instagram, ...
Queerty

Spectacle or support? The complicated visibility of trans youth in film & TV

The following is an excerpt from the new book Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds by Laura Horak and available now from University of California Press. Since the 1990s, a ...
advocate.com

Virginia researchers debunk the claim that most trans kids ‘grow out of it’

The Advocate's news editor Dawn Ennis successfully transitioned from broadcast journalism to online media following another transition that made headlines; in 2013, she became the first trans ...