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Any form of restricting access to gender-affirming care will have a “chilling” effect on health care for transgender and gender-diverse people, said Dr. Alex Keuroghlian, the director of the Division of Public and Community Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Many states also blocked bills restricting transgender individuals’ right to use bathrooms that match their gender identity around the time advocates in Texas were fighting to kill the bathroom bill in 2017.

It comes as the government has been criticised for restricting people’s ability to criticise actions by the state or its officials.

The US government in a report last year accused Uganda of restricting internet freedom through the use of criminal punishments.

In 2023, the American Medical Association refused to debate a resolution calling for a ceasefire, while in June of this year dozens of health care professionals and students protested the AMA’s House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, where a compromise resolution calling generally for peace in Israel and Palestine ultimately won over resolutions that would have called explicitly for a ceasefire, condemned collective punishment tactics such as restricting access to food, water or health care, and opposed U.S. funding to entities that commit war crimes.