Telehealth Is Key to Trans Health Care

Offering mental health services across state lines can aid children and families struggling to find gender-affirming services

Trans and gender-diverse youth across the country are scared, struggling and dying, and our duty is to address this crisis.

We know that gender-affirming health care improves the health and well-being of transgender and gender-diverse youth. Despite this, several states, including Texas, Florida and Alabama are doing their best to make lifesaving gender-affirming care illegal.

At the same time, the COVID pandemic has shown us that health care isn’t limited by geography; many health systems have strengthened their telehealth offerings. As clinicians in Massachusetts, where gender-affirming care remains more accessible than elsewhere, we believe there are many ways that clinicians...