BENJAMIN RYAN
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Breakout New York Mayoral Contender Zohran Mamdani Wants To Spend $65 Million on Medical Gender Treatments for Minors and Adults
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.
Supreme Court Ruling on Gender Treatments for Minors Is Major Blow to Transgender Movement, but Could Be Narrower Than Trump Administration Hopes
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.
UK Plans Landmark Study on Puberty-Blockers’ Effect on Children With Gender Distress: Critics Express Doubt It Will Advance the Weak Evidence Base
The stakes of this hotly anticipated trial have only heightened since President Trump’s second term has posed an existential threat to such research in the United States.
$544,000-a-Year, Nonbinary ACLU Executive Makes Incorrect Claims About Pediatric Gender Medicine: Will This Impact Landmark Supreme Court Case?
Hired in 2019 as the ACLU’s first DEI chief, AJ Hikes has also emerged at the center of a labor-rights case against the nonprofit that deemed it illegally fired a staffer on unsubstantiated claims of racism.
Trump’s Justice Department Won’t Pull Out of Supreme Court Case About Gender Treatments for Minors, Paving Way for Landmark Decision
A major outstanding question in the pending landmark case was whether the Trump administration’s Justice Department would withdraw its complaint on account of switching sides.
New Research Raises More Doubts About Safety and Benefits of Gender Transition Treatments for Minors
The most rigorous academic analysis to date of the research backing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones as treatments for gender-related distress in young people has found it has produced ‘very uncertain’ evidence.
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