Transgender, library, child care bills move in North Dakota
1 year, 8 months ago

Transgender, library, child care bills move in North Dakota

Associated Press  

North Dakota House lawmakers passed three bills Friday that would restrict transgender people’s access to bathrooms, remove sexually explicit materials from the children’s section of libraries, and expand child care assistance in the hopes of combating the state’s workforce shortage. CHILD CARE BILL Following heated debate, House lawmakers passed a bill that would expand child care assistance for parents in the state. The program would cost $65.6 million — which is “significantly less” than the other child care proposals lawmakers heard — and it would help thousands of children, said Republican Rep. Emily O’Brien, of Grand Forks, while speaking in support of the bill on the House floor. Democratic Rep. Alisa Mitskog, of Wahpeton, added that New Mexico — a competing oil-producing state — has already invested in child care assistance to attract workers.

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South Dakota Legislature ends session but draws division over upcoming abortion rights initiative
9 months, 2 weeks ago

South Dakota Legislature ends session but draws division over upcoming abortion rights initiative

Associated Press  

South Dakota’s Republican-led Legislature wrapped up on Thursday after about two months of work in a session that largely aligned with Gov. Lawmakers sent a $7.3 billion budget for fiscal 2025 to Noem, including 4% increases for the state’s “big three” funding priorities of K-12 education, health care providers and state employees. The Legislature also passed bills funding prison construction, …

Judge denies initial request to temporarily block North Dakota’s ban on kids’ gender-affirming care
1 year, 1 month ago

Judge denies initial request to temporarily block North Dakota’s ban on kids’ gender-affirming care

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota judge has ruled that he won’t immediately block the state’s ban on gender-affirming health care for minors, delivering an early setback to families who want the new law found unconstitutional. “We’re disappointed in this ruling, but we are confident that when all the evidence has been presented, the court will ultimately find that ending …

Judge to rule on temporary block of North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 1 month ago

Judge to rule on temporary block of North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Dakota district judge said Tuesday he’ll decide soon on whether to temporarily block the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for children, among the latest in a series of similar lawsuits playing out across the U.S. Three families and a pediatrician are the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in September. They say the ban violates the …

Families challenge North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for children
1 year, 3 months ago

Families challenge North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for children

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — Families and a pediatrician are challenging North Dakota’s law criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors, the latest lawsuit in many states with similar bans. State lawmakers “have outlawed essential health care for these kids simply and exclusively because they are transgender,” Gender Justice attorney and North Dakota state director Christina Sambor told reporters. They have made it a …

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 …

US culture wars dominated North Dakota’s legislative session
1 year, 7 months ago

US culture wars dominated North Dakota’s legislative session

Associated Press  

North Dakota’s House and Senate have adjourned, capping a session in which state lawmakers aggressively passed bills to restrict transgender rights, abortion access and library content — offering a glimpse of how Republican-controlled states have responded to these national hot-button issues. TRANS RIGHTS House and Senate lawmakers passed several bills with veto-proof majorities that were signed into law by the …

North Dakota’s abortion ban bill becomes veto-proof
1 year, 7 months ago

North Dakota’s abortion ban bill becomes veto-proof

Associated Press  

North Dakota state senators overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy. Last month, the North Dakota Supreme Court ruled a state abortion ban will remain blocked while a lawsuit over its constitutionality proceeds. Lawmakers have said they are passing this abortion bill and sending a message to the state’s Supreme Court that the people …

North Dakota sends transgender pronoun bill to governor
1 year, 7 months ago

North Dakota sends transgender pronoun bill to governor

Associated Press  

Public school teachers in North Dakota would be allowed to ignore the pronouns their transgender students use, under a bill that state Senate lawmakers passed Thursday with a veto-proof majority. The passage comes just days after House lawmakers also passed the bill with a veto-proof majority, which means the bill could become law without Republican Gov. Speaking in support of …

North Dakota governor vetoes 1 library bill, signs another
1 year, 7 months ago

North Dakota governor vetoes 1 library bill, signs another

Associated Press  

North Dakota’s governor vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have required librarians under threat of criminal penalty to screen sexually explicit materials from children, but signed another barring explicit materials from the children’s sections of local and school libraries. But he said the bill he vetoed would have created “an enormous burden” on hundreds of public libraries by imposing — …

North Dakota limits bathroom use for transgender people
1 year, 7 months ago

North Dakota limits bathroom use for transgender people

Associated Press  

Transgender kids and adults in North Dakota won’t be able to access bathrooms, locker rooms or showers that match the gender they identify with in places like college dorms or jails, under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Last week, the governor signed a bill that restricts transgender health care in the state, immediately making it a crime to …

New North Dakota law limits bathroom access for transgender people
1 year, 7 months ago

New North Dakota law limits bathroom access for transgender people

LA Times  

Doug Burgum signed a law that forbids transgender children and adults from using bathrooms, locker rooms or showers that match the gender they identify with in places like college dormitories and jails. Transgender children and adults in North Dakota won’t be allowed to use bathrooms, locker rooms or showers that match the gender they identify with in places like college …

Veto stands: Transgender pronouns OK in North Dakota schools
1 year, 8 months ago

Veto stands: Transgender pronouns OK in North Dakota schools

Associated Press  

Teachers in North Dakota can still refer to transgender students by the personal pronouns they use, after lawmakers on Monday failed to override the governor’s veto of a controversial bill to place restrictions on educators. “Ask yourself, does Senate Bill 2231 treat others the way you would want to be treated?” Republican Rep. Emily O’Brien of Grand Forks said on …

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 law limiting healthcare for transgender patients
1 year, 8 months ago

North Dakota governor signs law limiting healthcare for transgender patients

LA Times  

Doug Burgum has signed a bill into law that restricts transgender healthcare and makes providing gender-affirming care to people under 18 a crime. Doug Burgum has signed a bill into law that restricts transgender healthcare in the state, immediately making it a crime to give gender-affirming care to people younger than 18. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Dakota …

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 …

North Dakota advances suite of restrictions on trans rights
1 year, 8 months ago

North Dakota advances suite of restrictions on trans rights

Associated Press  

The North Dakota Senate has passed a series of bills that would restrict transgender people’s rights in sports, health care, schools, workplaces and daily life. Doctors would be prohibited from providing gender-affirming care to people under 18, and transgender girls and women wouldn’t be allowed to join female sports teams in K-12 and college, under bills that passed with veto-proof …

Minnesota moves to strengthen status as ‘trans refuge state’
1 year, 9 months ago

Minnesota moves to strengthen status as ‘trans refuge state’

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota House was moving Thursday toward strengthening the state’s protections for children and their families who come for gender-affirming care by making Minnesota a “trans refuge state,” bucking a national backlash against transgender rights. “Gender-affirming care is lifesaving health care,” Finke said at a news conference before the debate. “Bans on gender-affirming care are creating …

North Dakota House passes school gender pronoun prohibition
1 year, 9 months ago

North Dakota House passes school gender pronoun prohibition

Associated Press  

Public schools and state agencies in North Dakota would be prohibited from referring to students and employees by any pronouns that don’t reflect the sex assigned to them at birth, under a bill approved by the legislature. “It’s another week of a legislative session, and we have another bill that’s telling certain people that they have value or don’t have …

S. Dakota lawmakers push bill to bar transgender youth care
1 year, 10 months ago

S. Dakota lawmakers push bill to bar transgender youth care

Associated Press  

— A state House committee voted Tuesday to advance a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth in South Dakota. “Gender-affirming care is part of comprehensive primary care,” said Daniel Heinemann, chief officer of Sanford Health and chair of South Dakota’s American Academy of Family Physicians. “Family physicians are deeply concerned by the growing trend of recent legislative …

South Dakota GOP lawmakers push trans youth health care ban
1 year, 11 months ago

South Dakota GOP lawmakers push trans youth health care ban

Associated Press  

— A group of South Dakota Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday to outlaw gender-affirming health care for transgender youth, pushing the state to join at least a dozen others considering anti-transgender legislation this year. South Dakota Republicans have perennially considered bills aimed at limiting the health care, school facilities and sports teams that transgender youth can access. “Gender-affirming care …

States target transgender health care in first bills of 2023
1 year, 11 months ago

States target transgender health care in first bills of 2023

Associated Press  

After a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year, Republican state lawmakers this year are zeroing in on questions of bodily autonomy with new proposals to limit gender-affirming health care and abortion access. Gender-affirming health care providers and parents of trans youths are the primary targets of these bills, many of which seek to criminalize helping a …

Burgum unveils plan for North Dakota’s child care ‘crisis’
2 years, 3 months ago

Burgum unveils plan for North Dakota’s child care ‘crisis’

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota would spend up to $80 million in state savings over the next two years to address child care in the state, under a proposal pitched Tuesday by Gov. North Dakota has “tens of thousands” of unfilled jobs, and many families “have to make a choice to work and pay for child care or not work …

South Dakota House backs restrictions on trans students
2 years, 10 months ago

South Dakota House backs restrictions on trans students

Associated Press  

— The South Dakota House on Tuesday passed two bills aimed at transgender students, seeking to restrict which bathrooms K-12 trans children can use and which sports teams trans girls and college-age women can join. Kristi Noem to ban transgender women and girls from playing in school sports leagues, including college athletes, that match their gender identity cleared its final …

North Dakota Senate sustains transgender sports bill veto
3 years, 8 months ago

North Dakota Senate sustains transgender sports bill veto

Associated Press  

BISMARCK, N.D. — North Dakota’s Republican-led Senate on Thursday sustained Gov. “To date, there has not been a single recorded incident of a transgender girl attempting to play on a North Dakota girls’ team,” Burgum wrote in his veto message Wednesday. Burgum said the state “has a level playing field and fairness in girls’ sports.” The bill, he said, purports …

N.C. bill would ban treatment for trans people under 21
3 years, 8 months ago

N.C. bill would ban treatment for trans people under 21

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Three North Carolina Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Monday that would prevent doctors from performing gender reassignment surgery for transgender people younger than 21. Unlike other states, however, North Carolina would classify adults between the ages of 18 and 21 as minors under the “Youth Health Protection Act.” Medical professionals who facilitate a transgender person’s desire to …

South Dakota lawmakers revive bill decried by LGBTQ groups
3 years, 10 months ago

South Dakota lawmakers revive bill decried by LGBTQ groups

Associated Press  

— South Dakota Republican lawmakers on Tuesday revived a proposed law that would ban people from changing the sex designation on their birth certificates, even after a House committee rejected the bill that LGBTQ advocates decried as an attack on transgender people. Law changes that affect transgender people have become a perennial topic in the South Dakota legislature, although transgender …

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