Getting an abortion while trans was always hard. In Texas, a new law puts outsized burdens on them

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : And so certainly trans and nonbinary people fall into that category," said Amna Dermish, regional medical director at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas.
49% : Planned Parenthood's Dermish said some of her patients have the resources to travel, but many don't.
47% : A 2015 National Center on Transgender Equality report found nearly 29% of participants lived in poverty compared to 12% of the U.S. population, and 15% of participants were unemployed -- a rate that was three times higher than the unemployment rate in the U.S. population.
42% : More: Supreme Court declines to block Texas abortion law that bans procedure at six weeksAfter the Supreme Court declined to temporarily block enforcement of the Texas law
41% : In the wake of the federal judge striking down SB 8, the presidents of Planned Parenthood South Texas, Gulf Coast and Greater Texas issued a cautious statement urging people to call health centers to discuss their abortion options.
35% : But advocates said the exclusion of trans men and nonbinary people from news coverage on abortion obscured how much the new law especially hurts those groups.
35% : The fate of Senate Bill 8 is currently unclear after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman of Austin on Wednesday blocked enforcement of the law, calling it an "offensive deprivation of such an important right."

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