bills that encourage bias, reinforce stigma, and impose new barriers to health care. These measures — some under consideration and some enacted — run counter to longstanding AMA policy that opposes discrimination based on a person’s gender or gender identity.Even as we work to defeat a global pandemic, it is maddening that more states than ever before are considering legislative proposals that would directly harm transgender patients while promoting government intrusion into the patient-physician relationship, jeopardizing patient care, trust, and privacy.
The AMA is fighting dozens of regressive proposals to limit transgender rights that have been introduced or advanced in some 30 states.