USA lifts ban of "Gender affirming care"

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Ban on "Gender affirming care" lifted by Federal Court in the USA.
Pretty disappointing for all those future detransitioners. The Guardian includes some statements of course which have been completely debunked around the efficacy of this "care", and the rarity of proceeding to surgery.
I'm soooo tired of this shit.

RFK Jr agenda suffers another loss as trans advocates hail ‘huge step forward’ | US healthcare | The Guardian share.google/psuga503gWCMTftle

Also link here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/rfk-jr-agenda-trans-care-children

A federal judge overturned the Trump administration’s ban on gender-affirming care for children on Saturday, decrying Robert F Kennedy Jr’s “wanton disregard” for the law that “causes very real harm to very real people”.
It’s another loss for Kennedy’s agenda as secretary for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the second Trump administration – an agenda that has focused on restricting healthcare, including vaccines, abortion and gender-affirming care.

A different legal decision recently halted the agency’s attempt to raze vaccine recommendations, and new research and regulatory decisions have undermined controversial announcements by Trump and Kennedy on autism.

“Unserious leaders are unsafe,” Mustafa T Kasubhai, a US district judge in Oregon wrote in the opening to his final judgment on the gender-affirming care case, a 49-page decision that excoriated the administration for disregarding the law and overreach in its regulations. The judge also barred the administration from implementing similar policies under any other names to restrict care nationally by withholding funding.

Shannon Minter, legal director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, called the ruling “incredibly powerful” and “far-reaching”.
“It enjoins them from doing anything to interfere with the authority of states to regulate medical practice,” Minter said.

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Oh FFS 🤦‍♀️

Not you, OP. This news.

I now feel like I understand how it took 40 years for lobotomies to come to an end as a mental health "treatment" in the UK.

I guess it's a glimpse of what we can expect across this side of the pond too. Flip-flopping between bans and reinstatements until (presumably) enough legal wins have been built up to make the healthcare industry recognise that this is not a good idea. Thankfully, we don't currently allow children to have healthy body parts chopped off (like they do in the States) but I can sadly imagine the NHS taking the puberty blocker trial and cross-sex hormones provision off hold.... until it all eventually gets banned. I'm guessing that adults over 25 will still be allowed access in the future.. but perhaps not, given the cost to the NHS of someone being a lifelong medical patient (with an endochrine system that has been destroyed by the "treatment") and some comparative analogies e.g
the forthcoming blanket ban on smoking (I guess the tobacco industry failed to convince the government that lung cancer was an acceptable risk) and the eventual end to lobotomies.