This is the second story in a two-part series looking at health care available to transgender youth in Vermont. The first story “Vermont positioned to become gender-affirming care haven for New Hampshire families” can be found here .

Step by step, since the start of his second term, the administration of President Donald Trump has moved to use insurance programs overseen by the federal government as a tool for blocking gender-affirming care for minors nationwide.

It started with a presidential executive order in January that declared the new policy of the United States would be that the government “will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist or support” youth transitioning “from one sex to another.” Since then, blocking minors from accessing the broad suite of care that falls under t

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