US EditionUtah Lawmakers Stand by Gender Care Ban After Study Refutes Reasoning
- In 2023, Utah lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and a 1,000-page state-commissioned report was released in May 2025 reviewing this ban.
- The ban aimed to protect minors from potential long-term harms of medical treatments, but the report used evidence from thousands of transgender individuals to assess risks and benefits.
- Research indicates that providing gender-affirming treatment to youth under 18 leads to improved mental health, better psychosocial outcomes, and a decreased risk of suicide.
- The report challenges the rationale behind restrictions on hormone treatments for minors, stating that such limitations are not supported by scientific evidence or worries about possible future regret.
- Although some Utah Republicans, including the sponsors of the law, plan to maintain the current moratorium, others are willing to examine the evidence amid political and public debate.
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Utah lawmakers stand by gender care ban after study refutes reasoning
Two years after Utah banned gender-affirming care for minors, state health officials have released findings that undercut key arguments made by lawmakers who supported the law. The Department of Health and Human Services, tasked with studying the potential risks to children, found little evidence to back claims that such treatments are inherently harmful. What is Utah’s law on gender-affirming care? As of 2023, the law prohibits providers from …
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Utah lawmakers said gender-affirming care is harmful to kids. Their own study contradicts that claim.
Utah's health department and experts from the state's leading health organizations concluded from a study of thousands of transgender people that gender-affirming care generated "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
Utah GOP Commissions Gender-Affirming Care Study — You Won’t Believe What Happens Next
Oh, are we doing this thing again? This whole weekly recounting of a creepy anti-LGBTQ+ person? Honestly, I could start a Creep of the Minute column and still wouldn’t be able to keep up. I just finished reading a book called “The Oppermans,” about a Jewish family living in Germany as Nazism becomes all the rage. It is deeply unsettling how closely this book aligns with what is happening right now in the United States. It is also, in many place…
Utah Lawmakers Say Gender-Affirming Care Harms Kids. Their Own Study Disputes That.
(MedPage Today) -- When Utah Republicans passed a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for children and teens in 2023, they argued it was needed to protect vulnerable kids from treatments that could cause long-term harm. Years later, the results...
Utah’s Own Study Disproves GOP Claims Behind Youth Trans Care Ban - News Facts Network
A state-commissioned report in Utah has found that gender-affirming care for transgender youth leads to... The post Utah’s Own Study Disproves GOP Claims Behind Youth Trans Care Ban appeared first on News Facts Network.
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