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in Nashville 10/09/2022

Vanderbilt Transgender Health Clinic suspends gender-affirming surgery for minors

 

Transgender Health Clinic, which was established in 2018, has provided surgical services for an average of five minors per year.

 

Major medical associations – including the American Medical Association – have agreed gender-affirming care is clinically appropriate for children and adults with gender dysphoria, which according to the American Psychiatric Association, is psychological distress that may result when a person’s gender identity and sex assigned at birth do not align.

 

Last year, theTennessee state legislature passed a law banning hormone therapy for children who have not reached puberty,and Republican lawmakers are discussing passing additional restrictions next year.

Opponents to a proposed library policy in the Central Bucks School District stood outside prior to a school board meeting on Tuesday, Jully 26, 2022, holding up signs comparing the policy to censorship and book banning.

 

The ACLU of Tennessee released a statement last month condemning legislators’ plans for additional restrictions.

 

“Parents, patients and medical professionals, not politicians, should decide what medical care is in the best interest of any particular young person,” ACLU of Tennessee Executive Director Kathy Sinback said in a statement. “Medical and mental health treatment for transgender individuals is guided by evidence-based clinical guidelines, as well as existing state law that already regulates health care for trans Tennesseans. Efforts to restrict trans Tennesseans’ access to health care is vast government overreach and ACLU-TN stands ready to fight back against intrusions into the private medical decision-making rights of parents and families when seeking gender-affirming care.”

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/09/us/vanderbilt-suspends-gender-affirming-surgery-minors/index.html

 

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