The Politics of Transgender Health Misinformation

The rapid increase in public awareness of and attention to transgender people in the United States of America has come with a commensurate increase in the amount of misinformation about trans people circulating in both media and the political arena. Specifically, health misinformation has become a central feature of public discourse on transgender rights, where it has been mobilized to advance state and federal policies that limit (or, in extreme cases, prohibit) the provision of transition-related health care...