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In January 2023, a bill passed both houses of the Illinois General Assembly to "legally protect and defend gender-affirming care" within Illinois - as well as individuals coming from outside Illinois to seek gender-affirming services inside Illinois. The governor of Illinois signed the legislation into law on January 13, 2023. It went into ...
Gender-affirming care is a multidisciplinary approach that includes medically necessary and scientific evidence-based practices to help a person safely transition from their assigned gender ...
The case could have wide-reaching implications for transgender youth living in states that have passed similar laws. After the first gender-affirming care ban for minors became law in 2021, a ...
The legal status of gender-affirming surgery and gender-affirming hormone therapy varies by jurisdiction, often interacting with other facets of the legal status of transgender people. Key considerations include whether people are allowed to get such surgeries, at what ages they are allowed to if so, and whether surgeries are required in order ...
Last year, there was an unprecedented spike in bills that targeted gender-affirming care—defined as social, behavioral, legal, and medical interventions that affirm one’s gender identity—as ...
[4] [13] [14] Evanston and Oak Park also passed anti-discrimination laws. [4] [15] In 1976, Gay Chicago Magazine was founded in by Ralph Paul Gernhardt. A resource center and support hotline opened at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. [16] Urbana was the first city in Illinois to pass a gay rights ordinance in 1977. [16]
The gender-affirming care legislation is a major part of a broader set of laws and policies that has emerged in Republican-controlled states that rein in rights of transgender people.
The Senate quickly approved the amended bill and Governor Quinn signed it into law on November 20. The law went into effect (statewide) on June 1, 2014, with same-sex couples able to apply for marriage licenses and then marry after the mandatory one-day waiting period. [1] [2] Illinois was the nineteenth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.