Utah Republicans Ignore Study Supporting Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth. It's Research They Demanded

Utah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered it

The state’s ban on gender-affirming pediatric care “cannot be justified” by science, a two-year review concluded.

Utah Republicans ignore study supporting gender-affirming care for trans youth. It's research they demanded

In 2023, the state legislature banned care for transgender youth “pending research.” The research is in — and inconvenient for Republicans.

Conservatives pushed for a study to ban trans health care. It backfired spectacularly.

The results of a Utah Department of Health and Human Services study on the effects of gender-affirming health care on transgender youth were published this week. The biggest finding was something its proponents knew all along: that it saves lives.

Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It

In 2022, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was the rare Republican governor who seemed to truly care about the well-being of transgender kids. “I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live,” he wrote in a letter that year, explaining why he was…