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For transgender youth in crisis, hospitals sometimes compound the trauma
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Callum Bradford, a transgender teenager from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, talks about the difficulties obtaining personalized mental health care treatment. North Carolina is one of at least 22 states with laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. (Dec. XX) - photo by AP video: Erik Verduzco
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Four days of waiting under the flickering fluorescent lights of UNC Hospitals' emergency room left Callum Bradford desperate for an answer to one key question. The transgender teen from Chapel Hill needed mental health care after overdosing on prescription drugs. He was about to be transferred to another hospital because the UNC system was short on beds.