In today’s political climate, the term gender-affirming care is often framed as controversial and used synonymously with “transgender for everyone.” In reality, gender-affirming care includes a wide range of medical, mental health, and supportive services that both cisgender and transgender people access every day to align their bodies, health, and well-being with their gender.

In this episode, we’re exploring what gender-affirming care actually is, its history and evolution, and the medical and political landscape shaping the conversation today.

Additional Resources:

• Read Besties in Crime
• Gender Incongruence and Transgender Health in the ICD
• Gender-Affirming Care for Cisgender People: Q&A with Theodore Schall and Jacob Moses
• To Protect Gender-Affirming Care, We Must Learn From Trans History
• What is Gender Dysphoria?
• Magnus Hirschfeld and the Quest for Sexual Freedom: A History of the First International Sexual Freedom Movement (Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture)
• Elmer Belt, Harry Benjamin, and the Birth of Gender-Affirming Surgery in the United States
• Transgender Health Protections Reversed By Trump Administration
• Puberty Blockers for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Youth
• What are Puberty Blockers? What Are the Benefits and Risks for Transgender Children?
• Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT)
• Utilization and Costs of Gender-Affirming Care in a Commercially Insured Transgender Population
• How Many Adults and Youth Identify as Transgender in the United States?
• Medicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Heath Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children
• MACPAC Releases 2024 Edition of MACStats: Medicaid and CHIP Data Book

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