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For refuge states, the question is how to move beyond promises of legal protection and build a network to serve more patients.
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For refuge states, the question is how to move beyond promises of legal protection and build a network to serve more patients.
States that declared themselves refuges for transgender people have essentially issued an invitation: Get your gender-affirming health care here without fearing prosecution at home. Now that bans on such care for minors are taking effect around the country — Texas could be next, depending on the outcome of a court hearing this week — patients and their families are testing clinics' capacity. Already-long waiting lists are growing, yet there are only so many providers of gender-affirming care and only so many patients they can see in a day.
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Waiting lists for gender-affirming health care are growing in states that declared themselves refuges for transgender people as bans for such care for minors...
States that declared themselves refuges for transgender people have essentially issued an invitation: Get your gender-affirming health care here without fearing prosecution at home. Now that bans on such care for minors are taking effect around the country — Texas could be next, depending on the outcome of a court hearing this week — patients […]