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Juliana Kim

How gender-affirming care may be impacted when clinics that offer abortions close

Supporters stand in front of a pile of fire burned wreckage at Knoxville's Planned Parenthood on Jan. 6. (Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel/USA Today Network via Reuters)

When someone set ablaze the only Planned Parenthood health clinic in Knoxville, Tenn., earlier this year, the center was immediately inundated with patients' questions of what will happen to their care – but it wasn't just about abortion services.

"We were flooded with calls more from our gender-affirming hormone patients than from any other type of patient because we are a continuing source of care for gender-affirming patients," Ashley Coffield, the chief executive officer of the Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, told NPR.

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