AUSTIN (KXAN) — The University of Texas at Austin told its transgender students this week that the school's campus clinic would soon stop providing hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, as part of its gender care services.

Previously, transgender students at UT Austin could get HRT medications from UT Austin's University Health Services clinic on campus. Many in the transgender community see the therapy as life-saving.

A UT Austin spokesperson told KXAN that students could still get HRT from "external health care providers" who could offer them "a more comprehensive spectrum of focused care than a campus clinic."

"To ensure continuity of care, UHS notified current patients that this line of treatment will wind down this fall as patients transition their care to other providers," the spok

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