Alabama AG Fights Against Transgender Youth Surgeries

Planned Parenthood is now a major provider of transgender medical interventions, offering hormone therapy and other treatments under an informed consent model. Critics, like Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, question the transparency of the organization's reporting on transgender procedures due to a significant increase in 'other procedures' category in annual reports. Meanwhile, debates on transgender health care continue globally, with discussions on the merits and expansion of current practices and concerns raised about irreversible interventions at a young age. In the legal realm, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is defending the state's law prohibiting transgender surgeries and treatments for minors, highlighting a broader political and societal divide on gender-affirming care and age restrictions.