# @dmregister on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CxWIa4gJX-P
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8661311-dmregister-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-09-18T20:00:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Des Moines Register (@DMRegister) — https://gondola.cc/DMRegister

## Caption

Kathy Hotsenpiller and her daughter, Hannah, packed up the car on Monday evening for another five-hour drive to Minneapolis.

Hannah, who is transgender, missed school Tuesday to see her new doctor at the University of Minnesota. Because of a new Iowa law, which takes effect fully this week, transgender minors are no longer permitted to access gender-affirming care within state lines — sending families like the Hotsenpillers to seek it elsewhere.

Amid a national fervor over transgender care for children, Republican leaders in Iowa passed Senate File 538, which prohibits Iowa doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones or gender-affirming surgeries to transgender people under 18.

That six-month countdown ends Sept. 18, meaning hundreds of adolescent and teen patients no longer are allowed access to gender-affirming care within Iowa.

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