For transgender youth in crisis, NC hospitals sometimes make trauma worse
CHAPEL HILL — Four days of waiting in UNC Hospitals’ psychiatric emergency room left Callum Bradford desperate for an answer to one key question.
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CHAPEL HILL — Four days of waiting in UNC Hospitals’ psychiatric emergency room left Callum Bradford desperate for an answer to one key question.
Lambda Legal files lawsuit on behalf of trans kids over state's ban on gender affirming care for youth. Here's what to know.
Lambda Legal files lawsuit on behalf of trans kids over state's ban on gender affirming care for youth. Here's what to know.
Five transgender youth and their families have sued Louisiana over its new ban on gender-affirming health care.
As the political debate over health care for transgender youth has intensified across the U.S., elected officials and advocates who oppose gender-affirming medical procedures for minors have often said parents are not acting in their children’s best interest when they seek such treatment. Major medical associations say the treatments are safe and warn of grave mental health consequences for children forced to wait to access puberty-blocking drugs, hormones and, in rare cases, surgeries.