Treating Trans Youth with Dr. Izzy Lowell (2021)

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🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Since Chris is on vacation this week, we’re revisiting and providing an update on our episode with Dr. Izzy Lowell, who runs Queer Med, a private clinic that specializes in providing accessible health care to trans patients ranging from kids to adults. From the original description: What is gender-affirming health care? Around the country, there’s a Republican campaign to legislate and regulate the lives of trans youth. The most destructive of these efforts would bar trans youth in certain states from accessing gender-affirming treatment. Lowell’s practice covers 10 states across the South – and half of those have anti-trans health care bills on the docket. If they pass, it would become criminal for her to provide this care to many of her patients. Dr. Lowell joins this week to break down what exactly we mean when we talk about gender-affirming care, how the decision is made for kids and teens ready to transition, and the potentially devastating impact this legislation would have on their lives. Sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads. You'll also get exclusive bonus content from this and other shows. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	These kids are 15, 16, 17 and their state is saying that they're wrong. Their existence is wrong.
0:08.0	And I don't know what that does to the psyche of a 16-year-old to have your state basically say
0:12.9	that who you are and what you're doing is illegal.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, Chris Hayes.
0:21.9	So right now, as I'm speaking to you, it's current Chris Hayes. And I'm jumping in before you hear
0:32.8	past Chris Hayes because I'm going to be on vacation for a week. So we thought we'd bring you one of
0:36.8	our favorite episodes from last year when we actually mentioned in our mailbag,
0:40.6	treating trans youth with Dr. Isley Lowell. We recorded this conversation about nine months ago
0:46.8	in May of 2021. I gotta say, it's really stuck with me. So we reached back out to Dr. Lowell to see
0:52.8	how things have been since we last spoke. Ultimately, that proposed Alabama bill that we discussed in the
0:59.2	episode did not end up passing. And since then, Dr. Lowell says things have been quiet for them
1:03.7	in the legal front. One thing she brought up when we checked down her, she said she's been seeing more
1:08.8	conversations around requiring keens to have mental health counseling before starting hormone
1:13.2	therapy, which she says would be great. Ideally, but there are so many barriers to accessing therapy.
1:18.4	It shouldn't be an absolute requirement. And while our practices continue its work, she says she
1:22.4	still sees a country deeply divided on the treatment of trans teens. But some good news here. Dr.
1:28.4	Lowell's practice has only grown in the past nine months. She now has three nurse practitioners,
1:32.4	two physicians, and an office manager as her patient numbers go up. So enough for me. Here's
1:37.4	the original episode with Dr. Izzy Lowell. Well, as we've been covering on the show and a bit here
1:47.4	on the podcast, it's been fascinating not to mention kind of disturbing, even horrifying to watch
1:53.0	the priorities of the Republican Party post post January 6th and post the election because
1:59.1	obviously they can't set the agenda at the national level because they don't control either
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