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Texas Hospital to Resume Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth

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The Dallas Morning News reports.Young people already enrolled in the program, the oldest and largest in Texas, could continue receiving the care, while others were referred elsewhere.

An exception, though, was made for young people needing the treatments for reasons other than gender transition — for instance, early onset of puberty.Ximena Lopez, the physician in charge of Genecis, sued Children’s Medical Center in March, hoping to force the program to reopen to new patients.

Dallas County Judge Melissa Bellan Thursday ordered the hospital to again accept new clients for the program for two weeks while hearings on the suit continue.

She said it was discriminatory for the hospital to allow nontransgender youth to begin the treatments but not trans youth. “I feel immense relief that I can now continue to do good for my patients and provide them with the health care they so desperately need and that medical science recognizes as valid,” Lopez told the Morning News.So far, officials at the two hospitals have not commented on the order.

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