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Texas leaders have targeted trans youth, their families and gender-affirming care practices for months. It’s exacerbated feelings of anxiety and fear in trans youth, who already experience higher rates of depression, anxiety and suicide than their cis peers. Mental health practitioners can help navigate these feelings, but finding and accessing an affirming therapist in Texas can be a challenge.

Texas has seen the most rural hospital closures in the last 15 years than any other place in the country. As West Texas is quickly becoming a healthcare…

Over the past 15 years Texas has seen more rural hospital closures than any other state in the country—24 to be exact. As the pandemic swept through the…

Texas has seen the most rural hospital closures in the last 15 years than any other place in the country. As West Texas is quickly becoming a healthcare…

It felt like a normal Tuesday afternoon. Ramonna Matthews Polk was sitting in the living room of her Bowie home when her husband walked in on his lunch…

From The Texas Tribune: Gov. Greg Abbott signed into a law Wednesday a measure that would prohibit in Texas abortions as early as six weeks — before some…

Over the past 15 years Texas has seen more rural hospital closures than any other state in the country—24 to be exact. As the pandemic swept through the…

The night before Yusuf Khan’s high school graduation, he overheard a phone call. “I was up at night and was walking down my hallway and heard my stepdad…

From Texas Tech Public Media: From The Texas Tribune: Texas lawmakers are poised to enact sweeping restrictions on access to abortions, prohibiting the…

From Houston Public Media:Advocates for transgender Texans spoke out Wednesday against a group of bills filed in the state legislature that would…