Azeen Ghorayshi

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Azeen Ghorayshi

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3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Azeen Ghorayshi |Jodi Rudoren

Health care for transgender youths is deeply personal and important to thousands of American families. It's also one of the most divisive cultural and political issues of our time. Twenty-seven states have banned surgery, hormone treatments or puberty blockers for minors. The Supreme Court will decide soon whether those bans are constitutional. The Times just published a special six-part podcast on the history of these treatments and the contentious debate.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Azeen Ghorayshi |Austin Mitchell

Since 2021, nearly half the states in the U.S. have passed bans on medical treatments for transgender minors. The Trump administration is now targeting the care, and in the coming weeks, the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in. "The Protocol" is the story of youth gender medicine - where it came from, who it was meant to help, and how it got pulled into a political fight that could end it altogether. All six episodes coming June 5.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Azeen Ghorayshi |Amy Harmon

The H.H.S. review may set the stage for additional restrictions on gender-affirming care. Critics described it as an ideological statement. Federal health officials published a report on Thursday declaring that the use of hormonal and surgical treatments in young people with gender dysphoria lacked scientific evidence and expressing concern about long-term harms, a stark reversal from previous agency recommendations and the advice of top U.S. medical groups.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Azeen Ghorayshi

Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and cultural critics. Births in the United States increased by just 1 percent in 2024, still near the record low rates that have alarmed demographers and become a central part of the Trump administration's cultural agenda, according to data released on Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.