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NYU Langone will pay $8.5 million and UPMC $950,000 under Justice Department deals that keep gender-affirming care closed to minors. What started as subpoenas has become a template, and it now runs through the settlement table more than the courtroom.
The justices ruled unanimously that HB 1254 is constitutional under the state constitution — a legally separate question from the one the US Supreme Court answered in Skrmetti last year.
Four families say the hospital still isn't providing the gender-affirming care a court ordered it to resume. They're asking for $50,000 a day in fines. The doctors testified behind closed doors.
A Massachusetts district court ruled the administration broke federal procedure when it tried to remove gender-affirming care from the ACA's essential health benefits — a decision with real financial stakes for transgender people buying marketplace insurance.
A new CMS rule bars federal Medicaid and CHIP matching funds for gender-affirming care for anyone under 18, effective October 13. States can still cover it — just not with federal money.
Judges rejected a legal challenge to the Pathways trial, which will give puberty blockers to children as young as 11 under NHS research protocols — reopening a treatment that's been banned outside clinical trials since 2024.
As France debates a bill to restrict medical care for trans youth, its own Defender of Rights is pushing the opposite way — and a promised reform to let minors change their gender marker remains stuck. Here's where things stand.
With the Supreme Court mostly siding with the administration, the real action on US transgender rights has moved to the lower courts — injunctions over prison healthcare and a class action over who gets to see trans kids' medical records.
After a federal grand jury subpoena ordered NYU Langone to hand over the names and health records of trans youth, families and civil rights groups went to court — and bought time until June 24.
A draft decree from Madrid would force every autonomous community to fund gender-affirming surgery, voice therapy, and mental-health support — closing the patchwork that has long forced trans Spaniards to travel for care.
