For Ara Kareis, the Trump administration’s rhetoric about detransitioners and transgender people is not just wrong — it’s scary. “The whole administration is scaring me right now,” said Kareis, a 22-year-old North Carolina resident who detransitioned a few years ago. To her, the rhetoric shared by the president and the vice president that portrays gender transition as a form of mutilation is deeply harmful.
And as providers of gender-affirming care have become federal targets, her own medical care has been disrupted. Her insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield, has repeatedly refused to cover a pap smear or a routine breast cancer exam since her legal name, changed during her transition, is still male.
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