How to Use gender transition in a Sentence

gender transition

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The vote to override the veto of House Bill 68 comes just days after DeWine signed an executive order banning hospitals and surgical facilities from performing gender transition surgery on minors.
    Anthony Shoemaker, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Like most similar measures, the Texas bill bars physicians from administering to minors medications that can delay the onset of puberty, hormones or surgeries that aid in gender transition.
    Elizabeth Findell, wsj.com, 13 May 2023
  • The judge also held that Arkansas’ law violated the First Amendment free speech rights of medical care providers because the law would have prevented them from providing referrals for gender transition medical treatment.
    Mark Satta, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
  • DeWine vetoed the legislation in December, arguing decisions about gender transition care should be left to families and their medical providers.
    Haley Bemiller, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The incidents, which were reported in 46 states and the District of Columbia, included online harassment, gatherings of armed protesters outside drag shows, and bomb threats against hospitals that provide gender transition care.
    Maggie Astor, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
  • Effects of Testosterone Blockers Often, the first step in a medical gender transition is to begin hormone therapy, also known as gender-affirming hormone therapy.
    Elizabeth Boskey, Verywell Health, 5 June 2023
  • That does not include counseling that provides assistance to people undergoing a gender transition.
    Arpan Lobo, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • The outlet also reported that Mr. Copeland’s explicit posts on social media and websites included names and photographs of other people in the Smiths Station area, including a minor pictured in a post appearing to promote gender transition.
    Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Under Missouri’s law, clinicians will not be allowed to treat any minor who is not already receiving gender transition care, which includes drugs that suppress puberty; hormone treatments with estrogen or testosterone; and, in rare cases, surgeries.
    Azeen Ghorayshi, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023

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