‘Everybody’s afraid.’ Doctors warn of chilling effect as Missouri, Kansas target transgender care

Kansas City-based endocrinologist Brandon Barthel has provided care for transgender adults for six years, including helping them go through hormone therapy. When he sees patients and talks to colleagues these days, he sometimes hears fear. The onslaught of legislation across Missouri, Kansas and much of the country targeting gender-affirming care has unsettled the region's small community of providers and the patients who turn to these doctors, counselors and others to help them navigate difficult questions of gender and sex. Barthel worries the measures have created a chilling effect on docto…

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