How to Use gender transition in a Sentence

gender transition

noun
  • The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Tennessee law that bans gender transition care for people younger than 18.
    Casey Parks, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • Take the reaction this week when the New York Times ran a balanced feature about people who have come to regret their gender transitions.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
  • But problems do emerge when people want to gender transition.
    Nick Holdsworth, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Rachel Cohen The idea of social contagion has been coming up a lot in debates around youth gender transition too.
    Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 7 May 2024
  • As long as New York State law allows gender transitions, why not keep the suspense going throughout one’s lifetime?
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 July 2024
  • Lorelei had been taking gender transition hormones for less than a year and had no connections to activist circles.
    Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
  • On July 20, the school board, by a 4 to 1 vote, passed the policy that requires schools to alert parents within three days if their child takes any action to indicate a gender transition.
    Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Mulvaney, who documented her gender transition on TikTok in 2022, has grown close with Hilton and her mother, Kathy.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This time, with the war as a backdrop, the law banning gender transition was presented as a matter of national security.
    Georgy Birger, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The new rule comes as many states have implemented strict limitations on abortions and gender transition medicine for minors.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Which means that what is earnest and thoughtful about her drawings, many of them produced during her gender transition, is inseparable from what’s funny.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024
  • What gave his turmoil a political bent was his daughter Jenna’s gender transition around 2020, followed by her decision to cut ties with him.
    Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Rallying around the banner of parental rights, the groups have called for limits on what is taught in classrooms or offered in libraries and parental notification of students’ gender transitions among other changes.
    Matt Barnum, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Its employee is the only person who observes their gender transition.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • And on Monday, the Vatican condemned gender transitions as threats to human dignity.
    Azeen Ghorayshi, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Her state was also one of at least 16 this year that banned or significantly limited gender transition treatments for minors.
    Mitch Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • Believe me, there would be Republican politicians right now that would do an Operation Choke Point 3.0 to prevent gender transition for kids under 18.
    Roger Huang, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Duddy-Burke said her transgender son underwent gender transition surgery last week.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The move came weeks after DeWine struck down House Bill 68, which would prevent doctors from prescribing hormones, puberty blockers or gender transition surgery before patients turn 18.
    Haley Bemiller, The Enquirer, 11 Jan. 2024
  • These are also not athletes who present as male but identify as female, or athletes who underwent any kind of gender transition or reassignment surgery.
    Outside Online, 31 July 2024
  • Critics have also said gender transition surgery is not performed on children in Arkansas and that state code already includes medical malpractice laws.
    Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 30 July 2023
  • Several women’s rights and medical groups in the United States and Europe have questioned the medical safety of gender transition medicine, especially for minors.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Key parts of a Florida law that bans gender transition care for minors and imposes hurdles on adults seeking such care are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
    Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 11 June 2024
  • In states where Democrats control the statehouse, at least two, Maine and Maryland, this year enacted laws protecting people who receive or provide medical treatments for gender transition care from legal action by other states.
    Amy Harmon, New York Times, 7 June 2024
  • The Kansas House and Senate voted Wednesday to approve a bill banning hormone therapy and gender transition surgery, often called gender affirming care, for anyone under 18.
    Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Since most cases of juvenile gender dysphoria are resolved by the time of puberty, physicians should stop pushing gender transition on minor patients as the only solution.
    WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Beyond promising to ban gender transition surgeries for minors, Trump has also expressed a desire to prevent transgender women from competing in women’s sports.
    Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Then, in July, Mr. Putin signed a law banning medical gender transitions or changing genders on official documents.
    Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Coverage for gender transition hormones was also denied, according to the complaint.
    Breccan F. Thies, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Mulvaney expressed surprise that a single promotional Instagram video that featured a can of Bud Light with her face on it — made to commemorate the anniversary of her gender transition — spread so widely and kicked off such ferocious pushback.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 June 2023

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