{"id":31042,"date":"2020-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/medical-group-opposes-states-limits-on-trans-youth-access-to-treatment\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:10:05","slug":"medical-group-opposes-states-limits-on-trans-youth-access-to-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/10\/medical-group-opposes-states-limits-on-trans-youth-access-to-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Group Opposes States&#8217; Limits on Trans Youth Access to Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Group says legislation discriminates against trans patients and prevents physicians from doing their jobs<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A group of medical professionals in southern states opposes proposals that would limit transgender minors&#8217; access to gender-affirming health care such as hormone therapy and surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To put it plainly, gender-affirming care saves lives and allows trans young people to thrive,&#8221; says a letter signed by more than 200 nurses, physicians, counselors, and social workers in the nonprofit Campaign for Southern Equality, which advocates for LGBTQ rights in the South, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Such legislation discriminates against trans patients and prevents physicians from doing their jobs, according to the group.<\/p>\n<p>All of those who signed the letter work in Southern states where the restrictions &#8212; none of which have been passed &#8212; have been proposed, <i>CNN<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/02\/07\/health\/doctors-condemn-anti-trans-health-care-trnd\/index.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>CNN<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group says legislation discriminates against trans patients and prevents physicians from doing their jobs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":31062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-31042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}