/tags/trans-healthcare Trans healthcare en-US Copyright Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:30:09 GMT /health/2024-04-29/west-virginia-north-carolina-transgender-care-coverage A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia and North Carolina's refusal to cover certain health care for transgender people with government-sponsored insurance is discriminatory. Mon, 29 Apr 2024 19:30:09 GMT /health/2024-04-29/west-virginia-north-carolina-transgender-care-coverage Associated Press /health/2023-12-29/transgender-youth-crisis-hospitals-compound-trauma A North Carolina hospital network is referring transgender psychiatric patients to treatment facilities that do not align with their gender identities. Though UNC Hospitals' policy discourages the practice, administrators say a massive bed shortage is forcing them to make tough decisions. Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:50:44 GMT /health/2023-12-29/transgender-youth-crisis-hospitals-compound-trauma Associated Press /race-demographics/2023-10-12/transgender-residents-north-carolina-montana-lawsuits-challenging-new-state-restrictions Transgender residents of North Carolina and Montana added to a growing list of lawsuits challenging the recent onslaught of Republican state laws aimed at transgender individuals. Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:13:49 GMT /race-demographics/2023-10-12/transgender-residents-north-carolina-montana-lawsuits-challenging-new-state-restrictions Associated Press /health/2023-05-17/restricting-trans-health-care-could-increase-suicide-rates About a dozen bills introduced this year in North Carolina would impact transgender people including some that would restrict health care available to transgender kids. Wed, 17 May 2023 19:00:00 GMT /health/2023-05-17/restricting-trans-health-care-could-increase-suicide-rates Jason deBruyn /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-01-27/refused-when-youre-too-fat-for-top-surgery-weight-stigma-bias Last October Anita got an e-mail that piqued her curiosity: a story pitch about how anti-fat bias affects people seeking gender-affirming surgery. She hands the mic over to audio journalist H Conley, who follows a 26-year-old Black nonbinary food writer as they overcome repeated barriers to getting top surgery due to body size. Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:38:00 GMT /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-01-27/refused-when-youre-too-fat-for-top-surgery-weight-stigma-bias H Conley, Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /health/2022-07-14/nc-health-plan-resumes-coverage-transgender-surgeries-folwell State Treasurer Dale Folwell and the State Health Plan Board of Trustees announced Wednesday that they have to reinstate coverage of “medically necessary services” — including hormone replacement therapy and surgeries — which the health plan had provided for a single year in 2017. Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:23:39 GMT /health/2022-07-14/nc-health-plan-resumes-coverage-transgender-surgeries-folwell Associated Press /news/2022-04-08/alabama-legislature-votes-to-ban-gender-affirming-medical-care-for-transgender-youth State lawmakers also passed a separate measure prohibiting early classroom instruction on sexual and gender identity, a bill critics have dubbed "Don't Say Gay." Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:20:15 GMT /news/2022-04-08/alabama-legislature-votes-to-ban-gender-affirming-medical-care-for-transgender-youth The Associated Press /race-demographics/2020-12-11/embodied-child-free-not-childless There will be no COVID baby boom in the United States. In fact, a decrease in childbirth is expected, with existential fear prevailing over hormones and… Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:09:19 GMT /race-demographics/2020-12-11/embodied-child-free-not-childless Grant Holub-Moorman, Anita Rao