Plus: 45K trans youth at risk of losing gender-affirming care
20TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT SERIES
We hope you will join us on April 29 for a webinar on the Biden administration's accomplishments in its first 100 days. Co-hosted by the Williams Institute, UCLA's Critical Race Studies Program, and the African American Policy Forum, the panel discussion features national leaders in LGBTQ rights, racial justice, and reproductive rights, including Planned Parenthood's Alexis McGill Johnson, Rashad Robinson of Color Of Change, U.S. Representative Mark Takano, and UCLA Law's Kimberlé Crenshaw, Jennifer Chacón, and Brad Sears.
Over 45,000 transgender youth at risk of losing access to gender-affirming care
An estimated 45,100 transgender youth ages 13 and older in the U.S. are at risk of being denied gender-affirming medical care due to proposed and enacted state bans.
Arkansas has passed legislation denying gender-affirming care for youth, which impacts an estimated 1,450 transgender youth in the state. Nine other states are still considering these bills, including Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
Most of these bills would penalize medical providers for delivering gender-affirming care to minors. A few states would extend penalties to parents who seek gender-affirming medical care for their children.
The Williams Institute’s Global LGBTI Small Grants Program aims to encourage new empirical research focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex populations in the Global South (Latin America, Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East/North Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands) as well as amplify voices of researchers from those regions. The program will strengthen networking and knowledge exchange and provide mentorship from Williams Institute scholars.
