One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy — and would be using he/him pronouns.
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Even in blue states, hospitals have continued to drop gender-affirming care for youths
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Transhealth is a private clinic in Northampton, Mass., that says it took on more than 200 new patients after Baystate Health and other health systems stopped providing gender-affirming medications to youths.Â
J, right, and her son, Bug, at their home in western Massachusetts. Bug, who came out as a trans boy in 2024, had turned to Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass., for treatment until the health system stopped providing gender-affirming medications to youths in February.Â
Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., stopped providing gender-affirming medications to youths in February, after the Trump administration said it would pull Medicaid and Medicare funding from any hospital providing them.Â
J, right, and her son, Bug, at their home in western Massachusetts. Bug, who came out as a trans boy in 2024, had turned to Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass., for treatment until the health system stopped providing gender-affirming medications to youths in February.Â
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