Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need
1 year, 5 months ago

Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need

Associated Press  

CHICAGO — On an early morning in June, Flower Nichols and her mother set off on an expedition to Chicago from their home in Indianapolis. “Most parents are going through some kind of developmental process themselves as they come to understand their child’s gender.” —— On June 13, Flower and Jennilyn set off on their trip, unsteady but hopeful. Tate Reeves signed the bill banning hormone therapy for anyone younger than 18, he accused “radical activists” of pushing a “sick and twisted ideology that seeks to convince our kids they’re in the wrong body.” The state’s largest hospital halted hormone treatments for trans minors months before Reeves signed the ban. “Mississippi is my home, but there are a lot of conflicting feelings when your home is actively telling you that it doesn’t want you in it,” Walker said. “Indiana could do whatever the hell they’re going to do,” Jennilyn said, “and we can just come here.” ___ Arleigh Rodgers reported from Chicago and Indianapolis.

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"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"
2 weeks ago

"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"

Salon  

The Supreme Court last week appeared likely to support a contentious Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors after more than two hours of oral argument in one of the most pivotal cases for transgender rights in the nation's history. "We think it would be sufficient for the Court to recognize that a law that on its face says you …

Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. Here's how they're preparing
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. Here's how they're preparing

NPR  

Activists worry that Trump will bulldoze trans rights. toggle caption GROUND Media/GROUND Media "Many in our community, particularly trans people and their families, are filled with anxiety and fear about what a second Trump presidency could bring," says Ash Lazarus Orr, with Advocates for Trans Equality. Sponsor Message Another proposal during Trump's first term — which intended to strip "sex …

Supreme Court signals it will uphold 'state-sanctioned discrimination' in transgender care
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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Supreme Court signals it will uphold 'state-sanctioned discrimination' in transgender care

Raw Story  

Attorneys who argued against Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming healthcare at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed hope that the court's nine justices will take "the opportunity to affirm the essential freedom and equality of all people before the law," while reports indicated that the right-wing majority is inclined to uphold the ban. "We ask the Supreme Court to commit …

Far-right influencer calls for 'trans ideology' to be ‘erased' from earth at Supreme Court
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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Far-right influencer calls for 'trans ideology' to be ‘erased' from earth at Supreme Court

Raw Story  

As justices on the U.S. Supreme Court were hearing arguments in the Biden administration’s challenge to a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming treatment for transgender minors, far-right influencer, anti-LGBTQ commentator and activist, and Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh was outside the Court attacking what he calls “trans ideology” — and calling for it to be “entirely erased from the earth.” Walsh …

Conservative Justices Signal Skepticism In Case About Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Conservative Justices Signal Skepticism In Case About Gender-Affirming Care For Minors

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Supreme Court’s conservative majority expressed skepticism about a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth during oral arguments on Wednesday, in what experts say is the most important transgender rights case the court has ever heard. The law is meant to encourage minors to “appreciate their sex” and prohibits doctors from prescribing …

U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to state ban on gender-affirming care
2 weeks, 6 days ago

U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to state ban on gender-affirming care

Raw Story  

by Chris Lefkow The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a challenge to a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors, a case with repercussions for similar state prohibitions across the country. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, in a brief with the Supreme Court, said the state law is intended to "protect minors from the life-altering risks of …

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on medical treatments for transgender minors
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on medical treatments for transgender minors

Associated Press  

Follow live updates and analysis on the Supreme Court’s hearing on a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for transgender minors. The Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer warned a decision favorable to Tennessee also could be used to justify nationwide restrictions on transgender healthcare for minors. The Biden administration and the families and health care providers …

Conservatives appear skeptical of challenge to Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors
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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Conservatives appear skeptical of challenge to Tennessee law banning gender-affirming care for minors

Politico  

Opponents of the Tennessee law framed their arguments around Gorsuch’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, contending that denying certain medicines to adolescents based on their sex amounted to discrimination and required strong justification from state officials. With the court’s three liberals all appearing to support the plaintiffs challenging the Tennessee law, Gorsuch’s vote alone would not be enough …

States that have passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth
54 years, 11 months ago

States that have passed laws restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

CNN  

CNN — Twenty-six states have passed bans on gender-affirming health care for transgender children and teenagers, according to a CNN analysis of data from the Movement Advancement Project, a nonprofit think tank that advocates for LGBTQ rights. After the first gender-affirming care ban for minors became law in 2021, a flurry of states passed similar measures. While 19 states passed …

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban gender-affirming care for trans minors
3 weeks ago

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can ban gender-affirming care for trans minors

Salon  

The Supreme Court is set to hear one of the most important trans rights cases in history on Wednesday, with the nation's highest court set to decide whether a state-level ban on gender-affirming care for minors is an unconstitutional form of sex discrimination. In defending its ban, the state of Tennessee has repeatedly cited the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, …

How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide
3 weeks ago

How a Supreme Court decision on health care bans for transgender youth could impact trans people nationwide

CNN  

CNN — When Tennessee banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth last year, Sarah began taking days off work to drive hundreds of miles from her home in Nashville to a North Carolina clinic that could treat her transgender son. Parents like Sarah and transgender communities across the United States will be paying close attention Wednesday as the US Supreme Court …

What medical care for transgender minors is at stake in Supreme Court case?
3 weeks ago

What medical care for transgender minors is at stake in Supreme Court case?

Associated Press  

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case involving Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people under age 18. Here’s a look at what’s typically involved: Evaluation and diagnosis happen first Young people who persistently identify as a gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth are often referred to clinics where teams from various …

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
3 weeks, 4 days ago

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Advocates for transgender rights are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people. “The stakes are high, of course, for transgender adolescents, but also for the parents who are watching their children suffer, who are just trying to do right by …

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights

CNN  

CNN — Conservative groups have for years sought to reduce the government’s sway over parents’ childrearing choices, particularly when it comes to decisions about school and health care. But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say …

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights

CNN  

CNN — Conservative groups have for years sought to reduce the government’s sway over parents’ childrearing choices, particularly when it comes to decisions about school and health care. But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say …

Trans People Prepare For Trump’s Second Term
1 month ago

Trans People Prepare For Trump’s Second Term

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING On the night of the election, Red Broadwell was home with his cat in Wilmington, North Carolina, working on his master’s thesis about transness and body horror in film. It sucks that every time there’s an election, I have to ask, ‘What’s going to happen to me and my friends?’” After Trump’s victory, trans people across the …

Minnesota clinics are figuring out how to best care for out-of-state trans patients : NPR
2 months ago

Minnesota clinics are figuring out how to best care for out-of-state trans patients : NPR

NPR  

Minnesota clinics are figuring out how to best care for out-of-state trans patients Doctors and clinics in Minnesota are building up capacity to care for out-of-state trans patients who are traveling for care. SIMMONS-DUFFIN: They feel like they need to spread the knowledge on how to do this because patients from around the region are now flooding into Minnesota, says …

Megyn Kelly has a meltdown over Taylor Swift backing Harris–Walz
3 months, 1 week ago

Megyn Kelly has a meltdown over Taylor Swift backing Harris–Walz

The Independent  

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Providers halt services after court allows Florida to enforce ban on transgender care for minors
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Providers halt services after court allows Florida to enforce ban on transgender care for minors

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Advocates say transgender patients are facing barriers to “potentially life-saving health care” after a federal appeals court ruled that a Florida law banning gender-affirming care can be enforced while a legal challenge plays out. Jon Harris Maurer, the public policy director for LGBTQ+ rights group Equality Florida, characterized the law as government intrusion into “vital health care”. …

‘We’ve created medical refugees.’ LGBTQ+ healthcare workers fight for gender-affirming care amid rise in anti-trans laws
5 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We’ve created medical refugees.’ LGBTQ+ healthcare workers fight for gender-affirming care amid rise in anti-trans laws

LA Times  

Nico Olalia had just finished her initial nurse training in the Philippines when she realized her aspirations were growing bigger than her home archipelago. “We’ve created medical refugees who have to leave their state to get that care,” said U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine, the first transgender person confirmed by the Senate to a high government post. Mack …

Legal scholars worry Supreme Court may prioritize “politics” over “real stakes” in trans rights case
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Legal scholars worry Supreme Court may prioritize “politics” over “real stakes” in trans rights case

Salon  

The Supreme Court said Monday it will settle a legal battle over state bans of gender-affirming care in its next session, accepting for review what experts say could be one of the most pivotal cases for transgender rights — should the justices take the opportunity to make it so. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support …

Things to know about the gender-affirming care case as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in
6 months ago

Things to know about the gender-affirming care case as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in

Associated Press  

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear arguments on the constitutionality of state bans on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Gender-affirming care includes a range of medical and mental health services to support a person’s gender identity, including when it’s different from the sex they were assigned at birth. The gender-affirming care legislation is a major part …

Supreme Court Allows Idahos Ban On Transgender Youth Care
8 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court Allows Idahos Ban On Transgender Youth Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. Under the court’s order, the two transgender teens who sued to challenge the law still will be able to obtain care. The law’s backers have said it is necessary to …

Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth
8 months, 1 week ago

Supreme Court allows Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. Lawyers for the teens wrote in court papers that the teens’ “gender dysphoria has been dramatically alleviated as a result of puberty blockers and estrogen therapy.” The American Civil Liberties Union, representing the …

Federal appeals court hears arguments on nation’s first ban on gender-affirming care for minors
8 months, 1 week ago

Federal appeals court hears arguments on nation’s first ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

ST. LOUIS — Arguments before a federal appeals court that is considering whether to reinstate Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors focused Thursday on whether it and similar restrictions adopted by two dozen states discriminate on the basis of sex. Judge David Stras, who was appointed to the court by former President Donald Trump, asked attorneys on both …

Gender-affirming trans health care bans are going to destroy relationships between parents and their kids.
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Gender-affirming trans health care bans are going to destroy relationships between parents and their kids.

Slate  

Last year, a staggering 22 states across the U.S. banned gender-affirming care for minors. When I wrote the first draft of the book in 2021, Virginia’s governor was still a Democrat, and no state in the nation had yet banned trans medical care. Parents can remember a time, not too long ago, when their kids were babies, and on bad …

It’s Much Harder And More Expensive To Get Gender-Affirming Care Than Ever Before: Report
8 months, 2 weeks ago

It’s Much Harder And More Expensive To Get Gender-Affirming Care Than Ever Before: Report

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Families of transgender youth in the South have to spend much more time and money to access gender-affirming care than they used to because of anti-trans legislation that has been passed in the last two years, according to a new report from the Campaign for Southern Equality. Two dozen states, predominantly in the South, have passed bans …

Things to know about developments impacting LGBTQ+ rights across the US
9 months, 1 week ago

Things to know about developments impacting LGBTQ+ rights across the US

Associated Press  

A legal settlement in Florida, legislative action in Arkansas and a lawsuit in Georgia this week made waves in an ongoing national battle over the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans. FLORIDA AGREES STUDENTS, TEACHERS CAN SAY ‘GAY’ Florida this week settled a legal challenge to its 2022 law that bars instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools, a …

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied

LA Times  

Mack Allen, 18, attends a rally for LGBTQ+ youth at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., on Jan. 31. That law and others introduced around the nation this year — often labeled as “bills of rights” for women — are part of a push by conservatives who say states have a legitimate interest in restricting transgender people from competing on sports …

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Some states are trying to make sex binary. Transgender people see their existence denied

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — Mack Allen, an 18-year-old high school senior from Kansas, braces for sideways glances, questioning looks and snide comments whenever he has to hand over his driver’s license, which still identifies him as female. That law and others introduced around the nation this year — often labeled as “bills of rights” for women — are part of a …

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors
11 months ago

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Hindustan Times  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A proposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors was overwhelmingly approved Wednesday by the Republican-led South Carolina House. COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday debated proposed restrictions on health care for transgender youth, while a Missouri legislative committee discussed a slew of like-minded proposals. Democratic South Carolina Rep. Marvin Pendarvis said Republicans should stick …

Republicans Attacked This Issue All Year — And 2024 Could Be A Tipping Point
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Republicans Attacked This Issue All Year — And 2024 Could Be A Tipping Point

Huff Post  

Almost every morning, Christynne Lili Wrene Wood goes to her water aerobics class at the YMCA. “That’s really kind where we’re at right now.” Advocates told HuffPost that the current attacks on LGBTQ+ people, and particularly trans people, are rooted in a broader right-wing push towards a white Christian ideological agenda. Last fall, the state’s attorney general sought the private …

Your Kid Is Trans. You Live in Texas. There Are No Good Options.
1 year, 1 month ago

Your Kid Is Trans. You Live in Texas. There Are No Good Options.

Slate  

Zeder was 7 when he told his parents that the body he’d been born into didn’t feel right for him. But Paxton had used his power to try to intimidate providers into ending that legal care, as part of the state’s concerted assault on health care for trans youth. Another parent of a trans child in Lobo’s community told her …

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 …

Transgender Boy's Family Sues North Carolina Officials Over Ban On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
1 year, 2 months ago

Transgender Boy's Family Sues North Carolina Officials Over Ban On Gender-Affirming Care For Minors

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING RALEIGH, N.C. — The family of a transgender boy in North Carolina is suing state health officials to block implementation of gender-affirming care restrictions that they say will force their son to undergo a traumatic wrong-gender puberty. The North Carolina lawsuit closely follows the playbook of other successful court challenges to gender-affirming care bans that have swept …

Some providers are dropping gender-affirming care for kids even in cases where it’s legal
1 year, 3 months ago

Some providers are dropping gender-affirming care for kids even in cases where it’s legal

Associated Press  

ST. LOUIS — As Republican-led states have rushed to ban gender-affirming for minors, some families with transgender children found a bit of solace: At least they lived in states that would allow those already receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy to continue. “It was a completely crushing blow,” said Becky Hormuth, whose 16-year-old son was receiving treatment from the Washington …

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 …

States and families wrestle over compassion in transgender youth care bans in Tennessee, Kentucky
1 year, 3 months ago

States and families wrestle over compassion in transgender youth care bans in Tennessee, Kentucky

Associated Press  

Questions over which side was being more compassionate emerged as a key fault line in a federal appeals court Friday, as judges heard arguments on whether to block transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care in Kentucky and Tennessee. The move sparked alarm among advocates, who countered that doing so would immediately harm transgender young people currently receiving gender-affirming care, as …

States that protect transgender health care now try to absorb demand
1 year, 4 months ago

States that protect transgender health care now try to absorb demand

Associated Press  

States that declared themselves refuges for transgender people have essentially issued an invitation: Get your gender-affirming health care here without fearing prosecution at home. The teen, who said they’re “escaping Texas in the nick of time,” said California’s protection for gender-affirming care was one of the main factors in their decision on where to go for college. “That’s what we’re …

Medical exiles: families flee states amid crackdown on transgender care
1 year, 5 months ago

Medical exiles: families flee states amid crackdown on transgender care

Salon  

Hal Dempsey wanted to "escape Missouri." Missouri, Florida, and Texas are among at least 20 states that have limited components of gender-affirming health care for trans youth. The day after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sought to limit access to gender-affirming health care for transgender people of all ages this spring, Hal Dempsey launched a GoFundMe fundraiser for themself and …

Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need
1 year, 5 months ago

Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "Most parents are going through some kind of developmental …

Judge rules Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors violates US Constitution
1 year, 6 months ago

Judge rules Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors violates US Constitution

Associated Press  

— A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional Tuesday, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states adopt similar restrictions. Griffin said he was disappointed in the ruling, calling the health care “experimentation,” an argument the judge’s ruling said was refuted by decades of clinical …

Trans children need gender affirming care — and scientists say Republican bans hurt vulnerable kids
1 year, 6 months ago

Trans children need gender affirming care — and scientists say Republican bans hurt vulnerable kids

Salon  

The United States is an unbearably hostile place for transgender children, and the problem is only getting worse. "Gender affirming care is a very thorough, complex process of evaluating a child in the context of their own physical mental health" Take the American Academy of Pediatrics, the largest association of pediatricians in the United States and a group whose collective …

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 …

Parents of transgender kids seek to block DeSantis ban on gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 7 months ago

Parents of transgender kids seek to block DeSantis ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The parents of three transgender children in Florida are trying to get a federal judge to block a new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors, a signature policy of Republican Gov. DeSantis has curtailed transgender medical treatments for minors in the state — often describing the issue in terms that are at odds with the nation’s …

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

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

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ron DeSantis has highlighted efforts by Republican governors and …

Transgender youth sue over Montana gender-affirming care ban
1 year, 7 months ago

Transgender youth sue over Montana gender-affirming care ban

Associated Press  

— Two transgender children, their parents and two health care providers filed a lawsuit Tuesday arguing that a Montana law that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth is unconstitutional. The ban on puberty blockers, hormone treatment and surgical procedures applies only to transgender youth being treated for gender dysphoria, but that same care can be provided to cisgender adolescents …

US sues Tennessee over ban on care for transgender youth
1 year, 7 months ago

US sues Tennessee over ban on care for transgender youth

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Justice Department on Wednesday filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s new law banning transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care, one of the several laws the state’s GOP-dominated Statehouse enacted this year targeting LGBTQ+ people. The federal lawsuit comes after Clarke sent a letter to all state attorneys general last month warning them that federal law protects transgender …

For transgender kids, a frantic rush for treatment amid bans
1 year, 8 months ago

For transgender kids, a frantic rush for treatment amid bans

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — As a third grader in Utah, mandolin-playing math whiz Elle Palmer said aloud what she had only before sensed, telling a friend she planned to transfer schools the following year and hoped her new classmates would see her as a girl. “My body’s basically this ticking time bomb, just sitting there waiting for it to go …

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