trans health care

DOJ Rescinds Biden-Era Support as Trans Prisoners Sue for Surgery Access

On April 25 the Department of Justice renounced its previous support for a trans woman suing the Georgia Department of…

April 30, 2025

Georgia Moves to Ban All Transgender Health Care in State Prisons

Georgia senators have proposed legislation that would prohibit the state prison system from providing medically necessary gender-affirming treatment to people…

February 27, 2025

Worcester, MA, Joins Short List of Transgender Sanctuary Cities

The city of Worcester, Massachusetts, is now a sanctuary city for transgender and gender-diverse people, a development advocates hope will…

February 19, 2025

Chaos for Trans Prisoners as Hard-Won Clothing, Hygiene Items Taken

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s January executive order that declared transgender people do not exist, all federal prisons…

February 11, 2025

I’ve Always Been Incarcerated With Men. I Never Felt Safe Until This Time.

In the year between paroling out of Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody and being thrown into county jail for…

January 15, 2025

Trans Health Care Requires You to Be “Sick.” In Prison, You Can Work That.

On September 17, a federal judge halted the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) ban on gender-affirming surgery for people in…

September 18, 2024

How I Was Forced to Go Through Testosterone Withdrawal

When I moved to Italy for school in August 2022, I brought a three-month supply of testosterone, syringes and needles—the…

November 13, 2023

Trans Health Care, Medicaid and the Shortfalls of Prison Re-Entry Services

For about three weeks, I'd been communicating smoothly with the clinic where I'm scheduled to undergo breast augmentation surgery and…

September 25, 2023

Leaving Prison After 13 Years, and the Preparations I Made to Get Here

On September 13, I got up at 4 am and took a shower. I fiddled with my belongings, which had…

September 18, 2023

Leading Trans Health Care Guidance Updated—and Still Stuck in the Past

In September, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) released its updated Standards of Care, the gold-standard guidelines for…

October 11, 2022