“There are no new research findings and the MHRA hasn’t presented any new evidence,” Cass told the Observer, in response to the shut down of the clinical trial she proposed.

Leading Off: A wave of clinic closures creep towards the erosion of adult transition care in the US, with transmasculine underwear also threatened with restrictions as trans people are targeted in all areas of life.

The University of Utah fully discontinues providing gender affirming care for trans youth in advance of a state bill banning the practice, despite a review commisioned by the state supporting that very care.

Leading Off: A Bay area provider ends care for minors and the UK group GirlGuiding promotes bigotry against both girls and boys. Top story lines as the week begins.

Organizers spanning generations converged to demand the LGBTQ+ community health center reinstate gender-affirming care for patients under 19.

A 2025 paper studied over eleven years debunks the harmful myths that trans youth don’t know what they want.

Leading Off: More than a dozen states have challenged the DOJ’s targeting of youth care providers. The UK will study trans youth care, but community advocates warn the deck is stacked. And Brown University offers their trans students as a sacrifice. Our top stories starting out the week in trans news.

Connecticut parents of trans youth respond to the loss of gender-affirming care at Yale. The move comes as providers across the country reduce care under pressure from the Trump administration.

As Kaiser Permanente acts to halt access to gender-affirming surgery for minors and young adults, many providers fear for the well-being of patients. Others are defending the decision.

A 2025 study takes the time to interview and speak with trans children to better understand the scope of the impacts of restrictions on gender affirming care.

Alex Byrne’s ideological commitments were clear long before he was tapped by Trump to claim gender-affirming care is bad medicine.

Meanwhile, other mainstream media newsrooms treated the U.S. v. Skrmetti case as an opportunity to center coverage around the expected result.

At least three major providers have ceased to offer surgery for patients under 19. Youth and adults alike fear for the future under Trump.

An anti-trans, anti-science decision relies on a history of discrimination against women, and opens the door to challenges on care like vaccines.

Something must be wrong, they keep suggesting, but they can’t tell us what it is. And they didn’t uplift the stories of the trans youths whose care is under threat.

The mom of a trans girl pleaded with a New York Times producer not to use audio captured in a vulnerable moment. Against her will, the company is slated to use the clip for its new podcast.

A series of interviews conducted by Assigned Media reveals that even a step forward in resuming care is accompanied by major limitations and ongoing anxiety.

Kaltiala answers young people’s critiques: An update to our previous reporting on gender affirming care in Finland.

Behind the nightmare of youth gender treatment in Finland.

Instead of looking into the glut of research that doesn’t fit his confirmation bias, Ben Ryan is angrily asserting that he’s an industry pro after I dared to question his venerated Washington Post piece.