Benjamin Ryan is an independent health and science reporter who also contributes to The New York Times, The Guardian and NBC News and has also written for The Atlantic and the Washington Post.
The rate, from a new study of data about insured adolescents, represents an average over the seven-year period. Given the swift increase in usage over time, the rate was likely much higher by 2023.
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The campaign to void the course is part of an effort to discredit a major youth-gender-medicine critic.
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Camille Kiefel sued the two Portland-area mental-health professionals who each, she alleged, effectively rubber-stamped her for a mastectomy after a single appointment.
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Having added fuel to the debate that these medical interventions have been oversold, this study is being met with fierce resistance by supporters of pediatric gender medicine.
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This Congressional Budget Office analysis, covering 2019 to 2023, likely tallies the final heyday, at least for now, of taxpayer spending on such controversial medical interventions.
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An American Society of Plastic Surgeons task force, charged with examining the issue of such surgeries is, to their chagrin, cut out of the loop when the ASPS board issued its new policy last week.
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The laws in question are in Idaho and West Virginia, but the court’s ruling could have major national implications.
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The nine coauthors, all known as at least skeptical of such treatments, will now likely face intense scrutiny from transgender activists.
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WSU’s med school accredits physician-education courses from a nonprofit that’s skeptical of this field but comes under scrutiny from transgender activist-journalists and a national accreditation body.
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By imperilling a paper on gender-transition interventions for youths, evidence-based medicine expert Gordon Guyatt joins a wider suppressive trend seen in academic publishing in pediatric gender medicine.
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The Democratic Socialist candidate for New York City mayor proposes using taxpayer funds to pay for gender-transition treatments, including for minors, in the face of Trump and other right-wing attacks on such access.
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The landmark ruling deals a blow to the transgender advocacy movement, but is not necessarily expected to compromise gender identity-related litigation in other domains.
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