Georgia governor signs bill banning most gender-affirming care for trans children
1 year, 9 months ago

Georgia governor signs bill banning most gender-affirming care for trans children

NPR  

Georgia governor signs bill banning most gender-affirming care for trans children Enlarge this image toggle caption Alex Slitz/AP Alex Slitz/AP ATLANTA — Georgia will ban most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18 with a new bill signed into law by Gov. Lawmakers gave final approval to Senate Bill 140 on Tuesday, despite impassioned pleas from Democrats and LGBTQ advocates against what has become the most fiercely contested bill of Georgia's 2023 legislative session. The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia said it would "use every legal means at our disposal" to stop the law from taking effect, shortly after Kemp signed it. Doctors could still be able to prescribe medicines to block puberty under the Georgia bill, but Republicans say restrictions on other treatments are needed to prevent children from making decisions they will regret later.

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Ohio’s GOP governor signs bill restricting trans students’ bathroom use
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Ohio’s GOP governor signs bill restricting trans students’ bathroom use

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Republican-backed measure — labeled the "Protect All Students Act" — requires public and …

LGBTQ: 5 things about Georgia law that president refused to sign but parliament speaker did
2 months, 3 weeks ago

LGBTQ: 5 things about Georgia law that president refused to sign but parliament speaker did

Firstpost  

Lawmakers from the ruling Georgian Dream party last month approved the bill, which bans gender transitions and could outlaw pride marches and displays of the LGBT rainbow flag. The party says the law is necessary to protect Georgia’s Orthodox Christian church from outsiders Anti-LGBTQ protesters who managed to break through the police cordon make a bonfire in the area designated …

Georgia’s president refuses to sign an anti-LGBTQ bill and returns it to parliament
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Georgia’s president refuses to sign an anti-LGBTQ bill and returns it to parliament

Associated Press  

TBILISI, Georgia — Georgia’s president refused to sign into law a bill that severely curtails LGBTQ+ rights in the country and mirrors legislation adopted in neighboring Russia, her office said Wednesday. The anti-LGBTQ+ bill has drawn comparisons with Russia, where the Kremlin has been highlighting “traditional family values.” The Russian authorities in the last decade banned public endorsement of “nontraditional …

Georgia’s president refuses to sign anti-LGBTQ bill
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Georgia’s president refuses to sign anti-LGBTQ bill

Al Jazeera  

Georgia’s president has earned scorn from the country’s prime minister after refusing to sign a controversial “anti-LGBTQ bill” into law. President Salome Zourabichvili refused on Wednesday to sign off on the legislation, approved by parliament last month, which would ban gender transition, adoption by gay and transgender people, and nullify same-sex marriages performed abroad. “President Zourabichvili refused to sign the …

Georgia Senate Republicans push to further restrict trans women in sports
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Georgia Senate Republicans push to further restrict trans women in sports

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A Georgia Senate committee kicked off a new push by Republicans in the state to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports, hearing testimony on Tuesday from five former college swimmers who are suing the NCAA and Georgia Tech over a transgender woman’s participation in the 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships. Transgender participation in women’s sports roiled …

A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender youth is thrown out by a federal judge
6 months, 2 weeks ago

A Florida law blocking treatment for transgender youth is thrown out by a federal judge

LA Times  

Ron DeSantis, speaking in January, signed the transgender care restrictions last year as he was gearing up for his presidential campaign, which was based largely on such culture wars. “I’m so relieved the court saw there is no medical basis for this law — it was passed just to target transgender people like me and try to push us out …

With 2024 presidential contest looming, Georgia governor signs new election changes into law
7 months, 2 weeks ago

With 2024 presidential contest looming, Georgia governor signs new election changes into law

Associated Press  

Brian Kemp signed legislation Tuesday that makes additional changes to Georgia’s election laws ahead of the 2024 presidential contest in the battleground state, including defining probable causes for removing voters from the rolls when their eligibility is challenged. That provision in part has prompted the threat of lawsuits from liberal groups because federal law says states and counties can’t make …

Louisiana’s transgender ‘bathroom bill’ clears first hurdle
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Louisiana’s transgender ‘bathroom bill’ clears first hurdle

Associated Press  

— A bill that that would effectively bar transgender people in Louisiana from using restrooms, locker rooms and sleeping quarters that correspond with their gender identity — in public schools, jails and domestic violence shelters — advanced out of a state legislative committee Monday. While a handful of other GOP-controlled states have recently passed legislation dubbed “bathroom bills,” LGBTQ+ advocates …

Georgia senators again push conservative aims for schools
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Georgia senators again push conservative aims for schools

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia’s Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the state’s public schools, passing a bill Tuesday that would ban transgender girls from playing high school sports with other girls, limit sex education and require a system for notifying parents of every item a child obtained in a school library. The measure would …

Georgia Passes Bill Punishing Union-Friendly Employers
9 months ago

Georgia Passes Bill Punishing Union-Friendly Employers

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING GOP lawmakers in Georgia passed a bill Wednesday to punish employers that make it easier for workers to form unions, sending the legislation to Republican Gov. Long-standing interpretation of the National Labor Relations Act, the 1935 law governing private sector collective bargaining, allows for employers to recognize a union and immediately start bargaining when employees have made …

Georgia restricted transgender care for youth in 2023. Now Republicans are seeking an outright ban
9 months, 1 week ago

Georgia restricted transgender care for youth in 2023. Now Republicans are seeking an outright ban

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A year ago, Georgia lawmakers said they were striking a balance when they banned most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18, but let doctors continue prescribing puberty blockers and let minors then receiving hormone replacement therapies continue. Watson, a physician, had said last year that allowing the use of puberty blockers was a …

Georgia lawmakers support immigration crackdown, religious liberty protections at deadline
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Georgia lawmakers support immigration crackdown, religious liberty protections at deadline

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers pushed through dozens of bills before a key deadline Thursday, the last day for legislation to pass either the House or Senate and advance to the other legislative chamber for consideration this year. GUN TAX BREAKS: Senate Bill 344 would let people buy guns, ammunition and gun safes without paying sales taxes for five days each …

Efforts to restrict transgender health care endure in 2024, with more adults targeted
11 months, 1 week ago

Efforts to restrict transgender health care endure in 2024, with more adults targeted

Associated Press  

Republican-led state legislatures are considering a new round of bills restricting medical care for transgender youths — and in some cases, adults — returning to the issue the year after a wave of high-profile bills became law and sparked lawsuits. Last year’s limits included a Florida law that has made it nearly impossible for many transgender adults in the state …

Georgia can resume enforcing ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender youth, judge says
1 year, 3 months ago

Georgia can resume enforcing ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender youth, judge says

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia can resume enforcing a ban on hormone replacement therapy for transgender people under 18, a judge ruled Tuesday, putting her previous order blocking the ban on hold after a federal appeals court allowed Alabama to enforce a similar restriction. A spokesperson for the Georgia attorney general’s office, Kara Richardson, said in a statement that the office was …

Louisiana lawmakers overturn governor’s veto on gender-affirming care ban for transgender minors
1 year, 5 months ago

Louisiana lawmakers overturn governor’s veto on gender-affirming care ban for transgender minors

Associated Press  

— Louisiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature overturned Democratic Gov. Like statehouses across the country, for the last three months Louisiana lawmakers have heard and held debates over gender-affirming care — something that has been available in the United States for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations. This is the second successful override — the only other being …

Louisiana governor vetoes anti-LGBTQ+ legislation including a gender-affirming care ban
1 year, 5 months ago

Louisiana governor vetoes anti-LGBTQ+ legislation including a gender-affirming care ban

Associated Press  

— Democratic Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards blocked a package of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation from becoming law Friday, including the state’s version of what critics call Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and a ban on gender-affirming medical care for young transgender people. During the waning days of Louisiana’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a series of controversial bills: a ban on gender-affirming …

Parents of transgender youth are suing to block Georgia’s gender-affirming care ban
1 year, 5 months ago

Parents of transgender youth are suing to block Georgia’s gender-affirming care ban

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Parents of four transgender children have filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law set to take effect Saturday that bans most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18. They argue the law “violates the fundamental rights of parents to make medical decisions to ensure the health and well-being of their children” and “violates the …

New Georgia laws include ban on some treatments for transgender minors
1 year, 5 months ago

New Georgia laws include ban on some treatments for transgender minors

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — On Saturday, Georgia’s new law banning gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for those under 18 takes effect. For many, the law is seen as “devastating.” “It’s cutting off, literally, lifesaving care for many people in Georgia,” said Dr. Izzy Lowell, an Atlanta-based doctor who specializes in gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals. “So that’s a false …

Louisiana lawmakers approve anti-LGBTQ+ bills that include ban on trans care for minors
1 year, 6 months ago

Louisiana lawmakers approve anti-LGBTQ+ bills that include ban on trans care for minors

Associated Press  

— Louisiana is poised to become the latest state to enact laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community, after the Republican-controlled Legislature on Tuesday sent a package to the Democratic governor that includes a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. The Legislature also overwhelming passed Louisiana’s version of a “Don’t Say Gay” bill and a measure outlining pronoun usage for students. “This …

Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youths
1 year, 6 months ago

Louisiana Senate passes bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youths

Associated Press  

— A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in Louisiana was passed by the Senate on Monday and is likely to reach the governor’s desk in the coming days. Longtime Republican state Sen. Fred Mills was the tiebreaker vote, opposing the legislation citing that he “relied on …

Louisiana lawmakers pressed to resurrect bill banning gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 6 months ago

Louisiana lawmakers pressed to resurrect bill banning gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

— A longtime Republican lawmaker, in rural Louisiana, is facing national backlash following his tie-breaking vote to kill a bill that would ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in the state. He added that he relied on “science and data and not political or societal pressure.” With Mills’ vote, the bill — which would have prohibited hormone treatments, gender-affirming …

Republican-controlled committee rejects Louisiana bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 7 months ago

Republican-controlled committee rejects Louisiana bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

— Bucking the trend of other reliably red states adopting restrictions on young transgender people, a Republican-controlled Louisiana legislative committee voted Wednesday to a kill a bill that would have banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. Proponents of Louisiana’s failed bill, which would have prohibited hormone treatments, gender-affirming surgery or puberty-blocking drugs for any transgender minor, say they fear …

Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward in US statehouses
1 year, 7 months ago

Here are the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward in US statehouses

Associated Press  

A federal judge is considering whether to block Florida’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, as bills targeting the rights of trans people are being embraced by Republican governors and statehouses across the country. Here’s what’s happening: FLORIDA’S RESTRICTIONS Attorneys for the parents of three transgender children appeared before a federal judge in Florida on Friday, seeking to …

Republicans push surge of laws targeting transgender people in US
1 year, 7 months ago

Republicans push surge of laws targeting transgender people in US

Al Jazeera  

A rush of legislation targeting transgender people has been introduced – and in some cases passed – in state legislatures across the United States as the topic has become a Republican priority. Most recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to announce his bid to be the Republican presidential nominee, signed bills that ban gender-affirming care for minors, restrict …

Montana latest to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors
1 year, 7 months ago

Montana latest to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors

Associated Press  

— Montana became the latest state to ban or restrict gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids Friday when its Republican governor signed legislation that exiled transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr told fellow lawmakers would leave “blood” on their hands. The bill “protects Montana children from permanent, life-altering medical procedures until they are adults, mature enough to make such serious decisions,” Gianforte …

North Dakota governor signs law limiting trans health care
1 year, 8 months ago

North Dakota governor signs law limiting trans health care

Associated Press  

North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum signed a bill into law that restricts transgender health care in the state, immediately making it a crime to give gender-affirming care to people younger than 18. Gender-affirming care for minors has been available in the U.S. for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations, but it has increasingly come …

North Dakota governor signs trans athlete bans into law
1 year, 8 months ago

North Dakota governor signs trans athlete bans into law

Associated Press  

North Dakota’s Republican Gov. Doug Burgum on Tuesday evening signed two transgender athlete bans into law, effectively prohibiting transgender girls and women from joining female sports teams in K-12 and college. Burgum said in a statement that over the past two years, with more than 27,000 students participating in North Dakota high school sports, “there still has not been a …

Kentucky governor vetoes sweeping GOP transgender measure
1 year, 9 months ago

Kentucky governor vetoes sweeping GOP transgender measure

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky’s Democratic governor issued an election-year veto Friday of a sweeping Republican bill aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths that includes banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting the bathrooms they can use. Andy Beshear said in a written veto message that the bill allows “too much government interference in personal healthcare issues and …

Georgia law will ban most transgender care for kids under 18
1 year, 9 months ago

Georgia law will ban most transgender care for kids under 18

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia will ban most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people younger than 18, under a new law signed by Gov. “As Georgians, parents and elected leaders, it is our highest responsibility to safeguard the bright, promising future of our kids — and SB 140 takes an important step in fulfilling that mission.” Opponents say they …

Debate on Nebraska gender-affirming care bill gets combative
1 year, 9 months ago

Debate on Nebraska gender-affirming care bill gets combative

Associated Press  

— Debate that began Tuesday on a Nebraska bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors, which led one lawmaker to stage an epic weekslong filibuster, quickly grew contentious, with supporters and opponents angrily voicing their frustration and admonishing each other for a lack of collegiality. The bill introduced by Republican Sen. Kathleen Kauth, a freshman lawmaker in the officially-nonpartisan state …

Georgia senators send gender care restrictions to governor
1 year, 9 months ago

Georgia senators send gender care restrictions to governor

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A bill banning most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies in Georgia for transgender people under 18 is headed to Gov. Senators voted 31-21 along party lines with Republicans pushing through Senate Bill 140, despite impassioned pleas from Democrats and LGBTQ advocates against what has become the most fiercely contested bill of Georgia’s 2023 legislative session It’s part …

Kentucky lawmakers pass ban on youth gender-affirming care
1 year, 9 months ago

Kentucky lawmakers pass ban on youth gender-affirming care

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky passed a measure Thursday to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors, completing whirlwind voting on a repackaged proposal that triggered outrage and tears among opponents unable to stop the sweeping policymaking on a culture wars issue. Republican House Speaker Pro Tempore David Meade, in presenting the revived bill in committee, said: “Our job …

Georgia House panel: Make transgender-care doctors liable
1 year, 9 months ago

Georgia House panel: Make transgender-care doctors liable

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A Georgia House committee on Tuesday sought to make it easier to sue doctors, and possibly charge them criminally, if they violate a proposed law barring some kinds of gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18. “This bill is simply to pause and allow people, allow young people to be a little bit more mature …

Minnesota governor protects rights to gender affirming care
1 year, 9 months ago

Minnesota governor protects rights to gender affirming care

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order Wednesday protecting the rights of LGBTQ people from Minnesota and other states to receive gender affirming health care, as he slammed the tide of other states rolling back transgender rights. “Protecting and supporting access to gender affirming health care is essential to being a welcoming and supportive state.” Advocates …

Georgia Senate bill bans some transgender care for youth
1 year, 9 months ago

Georgia Senate bill bans some transgender care for youth

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate has passed a bill to bar some kinds of gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18, overriding impassioned pleas from a Democratic state senator who is the the mother of a transgender son. The 33-22 vote on Monday to pass Senate Bill 140, with all Republicans backing the measure, is part of …

Georgia bill dies that sought to curb gender talk in schools
1 year, 9 months ago

Georgia bill dies that sought to curb gender talk in schools

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A Georgia bill aimed at stopping teachers from talking to students about gender identity died an unexpected death Wednesday after conservative groups joined LGBTQ advocates in opposing the measure. Senate Bill 222, after multiple rewrites, called for public and private schools and camps to get parental involvement before talking about issues of gender identity. The bill defined gender …

Mississippi enacts ban on gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 9 months ago

Mississippi enacts ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

— Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill Tuesday to ban gender-affirming hormones or surgery in the state for anyone younger than 18, part of a broad effort in conservative states to restrict transgender athletes, gender-affirming care and drag shows. Reeves, who is running for reelection this year, said “radical activists” are telling children they are in the wrong …

Trans youth care ban headed to Tennessee governor’s desk
1 year, 10 months ago

Trans youth care ban headed to Tennessee governor’s desk

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Transgender youth in Tennessee would be banned from receiving gender-affirming care under legislation currently headed to the desk of Republican Gov. They need love and support, and many of them need to be able to grow up to become the individuals that they were intended to be.” Across the United States, state lawmakers have introduced legislation attacking …

Georgia lawmakers push partial ban on gender-affirming care
1 year, 10 months ago

Georgia lawmakers push partial ban on gender-affirming care

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A Georgia Senate bill is advancing to bar some kinds of gender affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18 — part of a nationwide effort by conservatives to restrict transgender athletes, gender-affirming care and drag shows. “What we’re discussing are sterilizing and mutilating treatments that are horrific in their impact on minors,” said Taylor Hawkins …

Indiana lawmakers advance ban on all gender-affirming care
1 year, 10 months ago

Indiana lawmakers advance ban on all gender-affirming care

Associated Press  

INDIANAPOLIS — Krisztina and Ken Inskeep’s son came out as transgender when he was a teenager, a transition they told an Indiana Senate public health committee on Wednesday that offered a remedy to years of his mental health struggles. Still, an Indiana Senate bill that the couple called “cruel and arrogant” — banning gender-affirming transition treatments for those 18 and …

Mississippi governor vows to sign limit on transgender care
1 year, 10 months ago

Mississippi governor vows to sign limit on transgender care

Associated Press  

Tate Reeves confirmed Tuesday that he plans to sign a bill to ban gender-affirming care in the state for anyone younger than 18 — part of a broad effort in conservative states to restrict transgender athletes, gender-affirming care and drag shows. I know from years of working directly with trans youth in Mississippi that they need support, love, and affirmation …

Georgia GOP lawmaker hits pause on bill dubbed ‘Don’t Say Gay’ by critics to make changes
1 year, 10 months ago

Georgia GOP lawmaker hits pause on bill dubbed ‘Don’t Say Gay’ by critics to make changes

Raw Story  

Georgia lawmakers are considering a bill that opponents compare to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation, which seeks to limit the way teachers and others responsible for caring for minors can answer questions about the child’s sexual orientation or gender identity. As written, the bill bars teachers, librarians, camp counselors and others responsible for watching over people 16 and under from …

Column: A Republican governor vetoed a harsh anti-trans bill out of ‘compassion’ — then signed a worse one
1 year, 10 months ago

Column: A Republican governor vetoed a harsh anti-trans bill out of ‘compassion’ — then signed a worse one

LA Times  

Spencer Cox, shown in 2021, signed the most extreme anti-transgender law in the country on Saturday. Greg Abbott instructed state health officials to open investigations into families providing gender-affirming care for their transgender children on the grounds that the care could be defined as “child abuse.” Abbott’s order has been suspended by state judges pending the resolution of a lawsuit …

Bill to ban care for transgender minors gets heated hearing
1 year, 10 months ago

Bill to ban care for transgender minors gets heated hearing

Associated Press  

— A proposed bill to deny gender-affirming care to young transgender people in Montana drew emotional testimony Friday. The bill by Republican Sen. John Fuller threatens health care providers with the loss of their licenses for a year if they use puberty blockers, hormones or surgery to treat transgender minors. Ren Zaluski rejected the “fad” argument, noting “there was a …

Mississippi House OKs ban on minors’ gender-confirming care
1 year, 11 months ago

Mississippi House OKs ban on minors’ gender-confirming care

Associated Press  

— The Republican-controlled Mississippi House voted Thursday to ban gender-confirming care for minors, joining about a dozen other conservative states in trying to restrict health care access for young transgender people. Bain said he thinks Mississippi should restrict hormones or surgeries for young transgender people because some of them might regret the treatment when they are older. “What are we …

Transgender lawmaker hopes her presence brings understanding
2 years ago

Transgender lawmaker hopes her presence brings understanding

Associated Press  

— Zooey Zephyr worked behind the scenes during Montana’s 2021 legislative session to oppose an ultimately unsuccessful effort to ban transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming health care, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery. “That they get to live their life, that they don’t have to hide the way I had to hide, the way other trans adults from past …

Newsom signs bill protecting transgender youths and families fleeing red-state policies
2 years, 2 months ago

Newsom signs bill protecting transgender youths and families fleeing red-state policies

LA Times  

Again heralding California as a refuge from discriminatory policies in conservative states, Gov. The bill also declares that any potential out-of-state arrest warrant for violating laws related to such care will be given “the lowest law enforcement priority.” “While attacks on the transgender community are not new, we are experiencing alarmingly blatant attempts to use legislation, policy and political rhetoric …

South Carolina governor signs transgender sports ban bill
2 years, 7 months ago

South Carolina governor signs transgender sports ban bill

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina’s governor has quietly signed into law a bill that would ban transgender students from playing girls’ or women’s sports in public schools and colleges as the state joins about a dozen others that have passed similar laws in the past two years. That’s the way we’ve always done it.” When asked if he meant biological …

Georgia high school athletic group bans transgender athletes
2 years, 7 months ago

Georgia high school athletic group bans transgender athletes

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — The main athletic association for Georgia high schools voted Wednesday to ban transgender boys and girls from playing on the school sports teams matching their gender identity, saying instead that students must play on teams that match the sex listed on their birth certificates at birth. When he signed a bill last week reiterating GHSA’s power to ban …

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