Ohio won't restrict gender-affirming care for adults but still goes after trans

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Ohio won't restrict gender-affirming care for adults but still goes after trans youth

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By TRUDY RING FEBRUARY 09 2024 5:50 PM EST in The Advocate

Gov. Mike DeWine's administration has made changes to a much-criticized plan.

Ohio officials have backtracked on a much-criticized plan to impose administrative rules that would make it difficult, if not impossible, for transgender adults to obtain gender-affirming health care.

Some of the proposed restrictions will still apply to minors, and a new law banning most gender-affirming care for young people is set to go into effect in April.

Early in January, Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the that the state's Department of Health and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services had drafted rules that require extensive counseling with a variety of health care providers before even adults could undergo gender-affirming procedures. This came after he vetoed the bill banning gender-affirming care for minors and before the legislature overrode his veto.

The rules as initially proposed would have a written care plan signed by an endocrinologist, a psychiatrist, and a medical ethicist (the latter position not defined in licensing procedures). Under the revised rules released this week, these requirements will not apply to adults, and a medical ethicists review won't be mandated at all.
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