Queering Medicine

QM’s weekly update on LGBTQ+ health and policy news for those living in the Lansing area 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚕️

*🏳️‍⚧️🏫🏛️ On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would require elementary and middle schools that receive federal funds to obtain parental permission before changing names, pronouns, or gender markers on school forms or allowing trans students to use facilities consistent with their identity, while also restricting schools from teaching anything defined as “gender ideology” by a Trump executive order. The bill must be voted on by the Senate, where it has a low likelihood of passing.

*🏳️‍🌈⚕️🌍 Earlier this month, the federal government issued new guidance that will end direct financial support by the CDC for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in most countries later this year, instead switching to bilateral financial agreements between recipient countries and the State Department that include new stipulations.

*🏳️‍⚧️⚖️ On Tuesday, a U.S. district judge renewed a preliminary injunction which blocks the Trump administration from sending trans women in federal custody who are plaintiffs in the Doe v. Blanche case to men's prisons.

*🏳️‍⚧️⚕️ On May 15th, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Texas Attorney General announced a settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital which will require the hospital to end all gender-affirming care for trans youth, pay the state of Texas $10 million, and establish the nation’s first-ever “detransition clinic,” which must be free to patients for the first five years of operation.

*🏳️‍⚧️👧⚖️ On Tuesday, a federal judge in Texas ordered a hospital in Rhode Island to turn over medical records from trans children, after another federal judge had already blocked the subpoena. The records are to be held in the judge's court while the Department of Justice appeals the blocking of the subpoena.

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