"Health justice demands that we leverage law, regulation, and policy to create health opportunities for all communities, especially and explicitly those that are and have been systematically marginalized." When states limit or ban access to evidence-based gender-affirming medical care (GAMC) for transgender youth, they endanger their mental health, well-being, and futures. To deny people access to the care they need is unjust. More in the AAMC's issue brief this #PrideMonth. To Protect Evidence-Based Medicine and Promote Health Justice, Protect Gender-Affirming Medical Care
| Center For Health Justice |
remove preview |
|
| To Protect Evidence-Based Medicine and Promote Health Justice, Protect Gender-Affirming Medical Care |
| More than 132,000 transgender youth across the nation face a loss of access to clinically recommended, life-saving health care as states move to limit or ban gender-affirming medical care (GAMC). More than 20,000 transgender youth live in states that have already enacted anti-GAMC state legislation. |
| View this on Center For Health Justice > |
|
|
------------------------------
David Skorton
President and CEO
Association of American Medical Colleges
------------------------------