Over 330 bills have been introduced in state legislatures in 2023 targeting the LGBTQ community for discrimination. Of these, nearly a third seek to restrict or prohibit the provision or coverage of gender-affirming care, particularly for trans youth. But gender-affirming care is often critical, necessary, and life saving for many trans people. Every major medical organization supports the provision of this care and decades of study and clinical experience have proven it to be safe, effective, and non-experimental. This workshop will discuss the litigation and advocacy used to defeat these bills either in the state legislatures or the courts. The workshop, which includes panelists with lived experience, will share litigation and advocacy strategies that have proven successful to date as well as discuss some of the lessons learned as these battles have played out across the country.

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