![]() ![]() Only about a half-percent of pediatric transgender patients pursue surgeries, mostly breast reductions. Options include medications to suppress puberty and hormones for older teens to promote masculine or feminine features. Gender-affirming care includes counseling for dysphoria, a feeling of unease in someone whose gender identity differs from their biological sex at birth. Where is a good place to live? Which school districts are safest?'" Many families have emailed Transforming Families Minnesota, and are no longer posing "what if" scenarios, said Hannah Edwards, the support organization's director: "I've seen those emails go from, 'Can we seek care in Minnesota?' to 'We're moving to Minnesota. He spoke on condition that only his first name be published, because his wife and children are finishing the school year in Miami. "The rhetoric started to ramp up and we could envision a time that we needed to move and decided to be proactive," said the father, Daniel, who moved to St. "Even if a state is closer and doesn't have a ban, they're probably going to skip to the state that has the shield law," she said.Ī Florida dad limited his search to six states with shield laws and job prospects after deciding that his home state had become hostile to his 8-year-old transgender boy. Angela Kade Goepferd, medical director of the gender health program at Children's Minnesota. Minnesota, under its new "shield law," won't support any state's prosecution of parents or doctors providing gender-affirming care for children.įamilies aren't going to uproot from 18 states with bans on gender-affirming care to move to states that have yet to take a stance, said Dr. "It got very bad, very quickly," she said.Īdvocates expect more families to move to Minnesota, which has positioned itself as a refuge while other states have restricted access by transgender people to bathrooms, sports teams and medical care. Paul last summer after Texas took steps to limit pediatric access to gender-affirming care and investigate parents who sought it for transgender children. Heather Crawford has second-guessed herself as a mother of Cass, a transgender male.Ĭould she have been more supportive when her child, born female, came out at 12? Could she have prevented Cass' suicide attempt three months later? Should she hold firm now in delaying the gender-affirming hormone therapy that her 16-year-old wants?Īmid doubts, Crawford is confident in one decision: her family needed to get out of Texas.
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