After Iowa lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, managers of an LGBTQ+ health clinic located just across the state line in Moline, Illinois, decided to start offering that care
Almost three weeks after Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, signed a bill making it a felony for doctors to provide gender-affirming care to transgender minors.
The Florida Board of Medicine voted Nov. 4 to approve a rule that barred physicians from performing surgical procedures on minors to alter “primary or secondary sexual characteristics.”