In some U.S. states, proponents of gender-affirming care bans have argued for the last few years that minors are too young to make these medical decisions — but in 2023, legislative attempts to limit the health-care options for transgender youth have expanded to a new age group: adults.
in February at the Oklahoma Capitol, according to the Washington Examiner.
“The important thing to remember is that no matter what age range these bills are targeting, they are attacking best-practice medical care, and they are unnecessary.”No less dangerous to trans people, according to advocates, is the sharp rise in bills seeking to limit the capability of adults to access gender-affirming care by removing funding and coverage.
But Johnson is also backing HB1215, which would prohibit Tennessee’s Medicaid program from covering gender-affirming care, shutting off access to trans adults who cannot afford to access private care. An Oklahoma bill called HB2177, which passed in the Oklahoma House at the end of February and now is in the Oklahoma Senate, bans facilities that receive public funds from allowing staff or facilities to be used for the provision of gender-affirming care “on any minor or adult.”
Others who've backed similar measures include former U.S. president Donald Trump, who promised in a January video that if he was re-elected,to minors and would create “a new credentialing body for teachers” in order to “promote positive education about the nuclear family, the roles of mothers and fathers and celebrating, rather than erasing, the things that make men and women different.”
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