Physicians are exiting Texas due to the ban on gender-affirming care, causing patients, including adults, to lose access to vital healthcare services.
, some of the needed treatments were unrelated to the gender-affirming treatments the state targeted.
“Many hospitals in these states, like Texas, I think are against these politicians and extremists and legislators, [but] they’re afraid of financial risks, they’re afraid of retaliation and they’re taking the easy way out which is to abandon their doctors and their patients and just subdue to this political pressure,” Lopez said.
Prior to his graduation from UT Southwestern Medical School this spring, Antonio García was deliberating where to pursue his residency training in family medicine.
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