Providers, administrators, health insurers and other healthcare-access gatekeepers can learn, train, change policies and remove barriers facing vulnerable groups so they can receive the long-overdue opportunity to pursue their best health and well-being.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is under federal investigation after it turned transgender patients’ medical records over to Tennessee’s attorney general. HHS launched the investigation a couple weeks after two VUMC patients filed a class-action lawsuit against the hospital for releasing their records to the attorney general.

LGBTQ advocacy groups and clinicians argue that healthcare providers have a responsibility to treat the recent wave of laws banning gender-affirming care for minors like the public health crisis that it is. To do this, providers must educate themselves about the laws in their state and nearby states, fight misinformation and collaborate with nonprofits to deliver care to kids in states where their access is under attack.

A federal lawsuit brought to court by two transgender women alleges that Tennessee and its insurance committee are discriminatory because they denied the plaintiffs coverage for gender-affirming surgery.

Following a series of violent threats directed at medical centers that care for transgender youth, […]

Plume raised $14 million in a series A round led by Craft Ventures. The startup provides gender-affirming care services for the transgender community.