GENECIS program for trans youth shut down
DALLAS -- Transgender Texans have become an ever-more popular target for right-wingers in recent years, including right-wing legislators in Austin who tried — and failed — in 2017 to pass anti-trans “bathroom bills” and who this year succeeded in passing bills prohibiting trans youth from playing sports on gendered teams.
Their efforts at banning gender-affirming health care for trans youth failed in the legislature this year. But transphobic extremists are working to ban effectively ban such health care by targeting health care providers and clinics that provide such care with protests and threats and labeling gender-affirming health care for young people as “child abuse.”
It appears their strategy is working.
In November, as the Texas Tribune reported, the GENder Education and Care, Interdisciplinary Support program at Children’s Medical Center — commonly known as GENECIS — was formally dissolved “after becoming the target of conservative criticism.” Dallas Morning News reported this week on the decision, saying that the clinic is cutting care to transgender kids and halting hormone treatments for new patients.
The move came, as the Tribune reported in November, less than two months after Children’s Medical Center officials told a local website that the program, which offered mental health services and hormone treatments for trans children, was “vital for young people with gender dysphoria.” Those same hospital officials, at the time, proudly noted that GENECIS was the first program of its kind in the Southwest and that it reduced the “significant suffering and extraordinarily high suicide” rates among transgender kids.
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