Currently 28% of transgender youth live in states where best-practice medical care for transgender youth is banned, as reported by LGBT MAP: https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/healthcare_youth_medical_care_bans

Movement Advancement Project | Health Care / Bans on Best Practice Medical Care for Transgender Youth

The policies depicted in this map reflect statewide bans, limitations, or restrictions on access to best practice medical care for transgender youth. Bans on best practice medical care represent one of the most extreme—and coordinated—political attacks on transgender people in recent years.

If the above source stops reporting data at resolution time, data from Human Rights Campaign (https://www.hrc.org/resources/attacks-on-gender-affirming-care-by-state-map) will be used, or other similarly credible source.

• Update 2025-02-11 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): States Defying Orders and In-Practice Access

  • If a state law or order banning best-practice care is not effectively enforced (i.e. patients continue to have in-practice access to care), this will count as not being a ban for resolution purposes.

  • For example, if a state directs healthcare providers to continue offering treatments despite a federal order, then that state would not be considered as banning care, potentially leading to a NO resolution.

• Update 2025-02-11 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Update from creator

  • The resolution will use the care standard as it existed at the time the market was created.

  • Even if a reputable medical body later changes its guidelines or deems the care no longer best-practice for minors, that change will not affect the resolution criteria.