Help protect trans kids and save lives by getting involved with adovacy against youth care bans.

• Get connected with
  • Advocacy Training
    • Physicians for Reproductive Health
    • Doctors for America
    • Whitman-Walker
  • Local, on-the ground leads for the organized response
    • Your local Equality Federation
    • Your local ACLU
    • Your local LGBTQ+ Nonprofit
• Get prepared
  • Know the legislation your testifying against
    • Read the proposed legislation
    • Review the proposed legislation summary with your local on-the ground legal partners (see above)
  • Review good source material that address frequent points in care bans
    • watch Dr. Meredith McNamera– at the FLBOM hearing
    • read Science Based Medicine Gender Affirming Care is Not Experimental
      • Part 1
      • Part 2
    • this is my long ass response to the FLBOM
  • Know your citations
    • Jack Turban’s The Evidence for Trans Youth Gender-Affirming Medical Care
    • Citations Since Then:
      • Chen D, Berona J, Chan YM, Ehrensaft D, Garofalo R, Hidalgo MA, Rosenthal SM, Tishelman AC, Olson-Kennedy J. Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones. N Engl J Med. 2023 Jan 19;388(3):240-250. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2206297. PMID: 36652355.
      • Tordoff DM, Wanta JW, Collin A, Stepney C, Inwards-Breland DJ, Ahrens K. Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Feb 1;5(2):e220978. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0978. Erratum in: JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Jul 1;5(7):e2229031. PMID: 35212746; PMCID: PMC8881768.
      • Olson KR, Durwood L, Horton R, Gallagher NM, Devor A. Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition. Pediatrics. 2022 Aug 1;150(2):e2021056082. doi: 10.1542/peds.2021-056082. PMID: 35505568.
      • Lieke J.J.J. Vrouenraets, Martine C. de Vries, Irma M. Hein, Marijn Arnoldussen, Sabine E. Hannema & Annelou L.C. de Vries (2022) Perceptions on the function of puberty suppression of transgender adolescents who continued or discontinued treatment, their parents, and clinicians, International Journal of Transgender Health, 23:4, 428-441, DOI: 10.1080/26895269.2021.1974324
      • Clara De Castro, Mireia Solerdelcoll, Maria Teresa Plana, Irene Halperin, Mireia Mora, Laura Ribera, Camil Castelo-Branco, Esther Gómez-Gil, Angela Vidal, High persistence in Spanish transgender minors: 18 years of experience of the Gender Identity Unit of Catalonia,Revista de Psiquiatría  y Salud Mental, 2022,ISSN 1888-9891, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rpsm.2022.02.001 
  • Draft Your Testimony
    • Time yourself reading it to fit the testimony slot
    • Have it proofed by your on-the ground team
  • Day of
    • Show up early (virtually or IRL)
    • Center your authoritative knowledge, training, and experience balanced with your compassion and empathy
    • There are a lot more tips here- but I recommend you have those through training with orgs listed above
  • Self-care
    • You are NOT responsible for the passing or prevention of this legislation
    • Plan to care for yourself and refills your resiliency wells