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.
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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||Politics
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.
By BENJAMIN RYAN
||National
The laws in question are in Idaho and West Virginia, but the court’s ruling could have major national implications.
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||Justice
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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||Politics
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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||National
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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||National
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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||Politics
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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||Justice
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.
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||Foreign
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.
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||Justice
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.
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||Justice
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.
By BENJAMIN RYAN
||National
