What’s Current: California teen who was transitioned speaks out against hormone therapy for youth

  • A California teen girl who once identified as transgender and underwent irreversible “gender-affirming” treatment speaks out in support of a Florida law blocking public healthcare funds from covering medical interventions for gender dysphoria. During a hearing on Florida’s law blocking hormone therapy on July 8, Chloe Cole described the health impacts of her transition and how surgery “irreversibly” harmed her body. During Medicaid officials’ hearing in Tallahassee, Cole said:

“No child should have to experience what I have. My consent was not informed. I was unknowingly physically cutting off my true self from my body, irreversibly and painfully. That realization, actually, was one of the biggest things that led to me realizing that this was not the path that I should have taken.”

  • Women across Iran are refusing to cover their hair in public, posting online videos of themselves removing their head scarves to protest the country’s “hardline” leader and mandatory hijab law.
  • Women’s rights activists stage a sit-in in front of Jordan’s parliament to highlight the country’s recent surge in femicides and demand better legislation to combat violence against women.
  • Female doctors in the U.K. launch the Surviving in Scrubs online campaign to expose sex-based discrimination and sexual misconduct experienced by women working in the healthcare industry
Meghan McCarty

Meghan McCarty is an undergraduate student and aspiring journalist living in the United States.