North Carolina legislature pushes limits on transgender youth rights in final days of session
1 year, 6 months ago

North Carolina legislature pushes limits on transgender youth rights in final days of session

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. Read our privacy policy Transgender rights are taking center stage Tuesday in North Carolina as the GOP-controlled General Assembly considers legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and trans participation in sports. Hours after the House Health Committee advanced a bill banning state facilities from treating trans minors with hormones and gender-affirming surgeries, the Senate will vote later Tuesday on whether to ban trans girls from playing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity. House members gutted the Senate version Tuesday morning, using it as a vehicle to resurrect gender-affirming care restrictions that some trans minors, like 15-year-old Rowan Bilodeau, said would limit their access to life-saving treatments. D Sellars, a 40-year-old nonbinary parent from Fuquay-Varina, said the slew of bills targeting trans people in North Carolina and around the country “just marginalizes us more, just pushes us out of the mainstream more, and it gives bigots more ammunition.” Sellars donned a “Gender Identity Scares My State’s Government” shirt Tuesday at the General Assembly, where they had hoped to testify in committee about their experience parenting a nonbinary child but were not given time to speak.

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"It's about the cruelty": Experts worry SCOTUS trans rights case could "creep into other areas"
2 weeks, 1 day 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 …

Conservative Justices Signal Skepticism In Case About Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
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2 weeks, 6 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 …

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

Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Is the Supreme Court about to let red states ban hormone treatment for transgender teens?

LA Times  

The conservative Supreme Court is poised to leap into another culture-war battle between red states and blue states, this time involving medical rights of transgender teens and their parents. Biden’s Solicitor Gen. Elizabeth Prelogar told the court “there is broad consensus in the field that adolescents who have reached the early stages of puberty and have experienced gender dysphoria over …

South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
7 months ago

South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. “Healthcare is a human right – and it breaks my heart to see lawmakers rip away life-affirming and often life-saving medical care from transgender youth in South Carolina. No one should be forced to leave their home state to access the care that they need and deserve,” Uplift Outreach Center Executive Director Raymond Velazquez …

A trans teenager died after being attacked in Oklahoma. Days later, CPAC was dominated by anti-trans rhetoric
9 months, 4 weeks ago

A trans teenager died after being attacked in Oklahoma. Days later, CPAC was dominated by anti-trans rhetoric

The Independent  

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South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors
11 months, 1 week 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 …

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Missouri panel sees similar bills
11 months, 1 week ago

South Carolina House OKs ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Missouri panel sees similar bills

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Republican-led South Carolina House overwhelmingly approved a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors on Wednesday, while a Missouri legislative committee discussed a slew of like-minded proposals. But Republican South Carolina Rep. John McCravy, a co-sponsor of the bill, said Wednesday that “unpublished evidence” shows puberty blockers increase self-harm and decried the banned treatments as irreversible. …

South Carolina Republicans back trans youth health care ban despite pushback from parents, doctors
11 months, 2 weeks ago

South Carolina Republicans back trans youth health care ban despite pushback from parents, doctors

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Pleas from transgender children’s pediatricians and parents to keep allowing such kids to receive hormone therapies failed to stop Republican lawmakers from advancing a ban on those treatments to the South Carolina House floor on Wednesday. The bill would bar health professionals from performing gender transition surgery, prescribing puberty-blocking drugs and overseeing hormone therapy for anyone under …

South Carolina Republican agenda includes energy resilience, gender care, Black history and guns
11 months, 2 weeks ago

South Carolina Republican agenda includes energy resilience, gender care, Black history and guns

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican lawmakers who pull all the levers of the South Carolina Legislature want to dispense with so-called “social issues” and focus this session on matters hitting residents’ pocketbooks. The 170-seat General Assembly reconvened Tuesday after last year’s work stretched into June with a prolonged debate over contentious new abortion restrictions, leaving part one of the two-year session …

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 …

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 …

Transgender residents in North Carolina, Montana file lawsuits challenging new state restrictions
1 year, 2 months ago

Transgender residents in North Carolina, Montana file lawsuits challenging new state restrictions

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Transgender residents of North Carolina and Montana added Wednesday to a growing list of lawsuits challenging the recent onslaught of Republican state laws aimed at transgender individuals. 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 …

Nebraska is imposing a 7-day wait for trans youth to start gender-affirming medications
1 year, 2 months ago

Nebraska is imposing a 7-day wait for trans youth to start gender-affirming medications

Associated Press  

Nebraska is requiring transgender youth seeking gender-affirming care to wait seven days to start puberty blocking medications or hormone treatments under emergency regulations announced Sunday by the state health department. A new law that took effect Sunday bans gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth under 19 and also required the state’s chief medical officer to spell out when and how those …

Transgender minors in Nebraska, their families and doctors brace for a new law limiting treatment
1 year, 2 months ago

Transgender minors in Nebraska, their families and doctors brace for a new law limiting treatment

Associated Press  

— As Nebraska’s new law restricting gender-affirming care for minors goes into effect this weekend, families with transgender children and the doctors who treat them are steeling themselves for change. Only those minors who have shown “a long-lasting and intense pattern of gender nonconformity or gender dysphoria” would be allowed to start puberty blocking or hormone treatment, and only under …

North Carolina laws curtailing transgender rights prompt less backlash than 2016 ‘bathroom bill’
1 year, 4 months ago

North Carolina laws curtailing transgender rights prompt less backlash than 2016 ‘bathroom bill’

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Seven years ago, North Carolina became ground zero in the nationwide fight over transgender rights with the passage of a “bathroom bill” that galvanized culture warriors, canceled business projects and sporting events and influenced a gubernatorial race. Republican Senate leader Phil Berger acknowledged Thursday that the “bathroom bill” is widely regarded as the prelude to the present …

Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina in US
1 year, 4 months ago

Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina in US

Hindustan Times  

Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming medical treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the governor’s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ instruction in the classroom. Democratic Sen. Lisa Grafstein, North Carolina’s only out LGBTQ state senator, said the gender-affirming care bill “may be the most heartbreaking bill …

North Carolina formally bans transgender girls in school sports and all youth gender-affirming care
1 year, 4 months ago

North Carolina formally bans transgender girls in school sports and all youth gender-affirming care

The Independent  

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North Carolina GOP seeks to override governor's veto of bill banning gender-affirming care for youth
1 year, 4 months ago

North Carolina GOP seeks to override governor's veto of bill banning gender-affirming care for youth

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Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina
1 year, 4 months ago

Veto overridden: Ban on gender-affirming care for minors takes effect in North Carolina

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Transgender youth in North Carolina lost access Wednesday to gender-affirming medical treatments after the Republican-led General Assembly overrode the governor’s vetoes of that legislation and other bills touching on gender in sports and LGBTQ+ instruction in the classroom. Democratic Sen. Lisa Grafstein, North Carolina’s only out LGBTQ+ state senator, said the gender-affirming care bill “may be the …

North Carolina governor vetoes trio of LGBTQ+ restrictions in ongoing fight with GOP supermajority
1 year, 5 months ago

North Carolina governor vetoes trio of LGBTQ+ restrictions in ongoing fight with GOP supermajority

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed Wednesday a trio of bills aimed at LGBTQ+ youth that would ban gender-affirming health care for minors, restrict transgender participation in school sports and limit classroom instruction about gender identity and sexuality. Before this year, North Carolina had largely refrained from passing LGBTQ+ regulations after its 2016 “bathroom bill” — …

North Carolina lawmakers give final OK to ban on gender-affirming care for trans children
1 year, 5 months ago

North Carolina lawmakers give final OK to ban on gender-affirming care for trans children

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers finalized legislation on Wednesday that would prohibit certain gender-affirming care for children and prevent state funds from being used to provide such therapies and procedures. According to leading professional health associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the Endocrine Society, gender-affirming care is considered safe and medically necessary. Also …

Transgender sports ban heads to North Carolina governor’s desk
1 year, 6 months ago

Transgender sports ban heads to North Carolina governor’s desk

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Transgender girls in North Carolina would no longer be allowed to play on the school sports teams that align with their gender identity under a proposal that received final legislative approval on Thursday. North Carolina, like many other Republican-led state legislatures, could soon push several other bills across the finish line that target trans youth, including a …

North Carolina legislature pushes limits on transgender youth rights in final days of session
1 year, 6 months ago

North Carolina legislature pushes limits on transgender youth rights in final days of session

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Transgender rights took center stage Tuesday in North Carolina as the GOP-controlled General Assembly advanced legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and trans participation in sports. Hours after the House Health Committee advanced a bill banning state facilities from treating trans minors with hormones and gender-affirming surgeries, the Senate voted 31-17 to ban trans girls from playing …

Transgender sports ban nears finish line in North Carolina legislature
1 year, 6 months ago

Transgender sports ban nears finish line in North Carolina legislature

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A bill banning transgender girls from playing on the middle school, high school and college sports teams that align with their gender identity is approaching the finish line in North Carolina as GOP-controlled state legislatures nationwide round out a record year of legislation targeting transgender residents. “This is only telling everyone that women’s sports is for women.” …

How GOP efforts to restrict trans rights take a page from the antiabortion playbook
1 year, 6 months ago

How GOP efforts to restrict trans rights take a page from the antiabortion playbook

LA Times  

New laws threatening doctors with malpractice suits and criminal charges. “Attacks on LGBTQIA+ people and attacks on abortion care are really inextricably linked,” said Heather Shumaker, the director of state abortion access at the National Women’s Law Center. “They’re both attacks on bodily autonomy and the right to take care of our own health, families and future.” Strangio said the …

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 …

North Carolina House OKs ban on transgender youth surgeries
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina House OKs ban on transgender youth surgeries

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Transgender youth in North Carolina would have to wait until they turn 18 to receive gender-affirming surgeries under a bill approved Wednesday by the GOP-controlled state House. Rep. Ken Fontenot, a Wilson County Republican and one of the bill’s primary sponsors, said performing gender-affirming surgeries on children and teenagers is “a grave injustice.” “I am not against …

Transgender surgery ban advances in North Carolina House
1 year, 7 months ago

Transgender surgery ban advances in North Carolina House

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Dozens of transgender North Carolinians and their supporters spoke out against state lawmakers Tuesday as a House committee advanced legislation banning gender-affirming surgeries for minors without allowing members of the public to testify. The audience erupted in chants of “Let us speak” and “Blood on your hands” as the Republican-controlled House Health Committee passed a proposal prohibiting …

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 …

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 …

Review finds no misconduct at Missouri trans youth clinic
1 year, 8 months ago

Review finds no misconduct at Missouri trans youth clinic

Associated Press  

— A Missouri university said Friday that an internal review has found allegations of improper care at a center for young transgender patients were “unsubstantiated,” after a former employee made claims of poor treatment — leading the state’s attorney general to investigate. Washington University’s eight-week review found “allegations of substandard care causing adverse outcomes for patients at the Center are …

North Carolina GOP closes in on transgender athlete ban
1 year, 8 months ago

North Carolina GOP closes in on transgender athlete ban

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A prohibition on transgender girls playing on female sports teams in North Carolina schools cleared a second legislative chamber this week when the state Senate approved a bill Thursday. Also Thursday, the U.S. House passed a bill to bar federally supported schools and colleges from allowing any athlete whose biological sex assigned at birth was male from …

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 Carolina House approves ban on transgender athletes
1 year, 8 months ago

North Carolina House approves ban on transgender athletes

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Transgender girls in North Carolina would be prohibited from joining female sports teams in middle school, high school and college under legislation passed Wednesday by the Republican-controlled House in one of its first actions since attaining a supermajority earlier this month. The House approved legislation 73-39, with three Democrats voting in favor, to separate sports by biological …

Veto-proof North Carolina GOP advances transgender sport ban
1 year, 8 months ago

Veto-proof North Carolina GOP advances transgender sport ban

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Transgender girls would be prohibited from participating in sports that correspond with their gender identity under a bill that advanced Tuesday in the North Carolina Senate. The Senate Education Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would designate middle and high school sports by biological sex, determined by “reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” While sponsors promoted the …

Newly veto-proof North Carolina GOP files transgender bans
1 year, 8 months ago

Newly veto-proof North Carolina GOP files transgender bans

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — On the heels of a Democratic state lawmaker’s seismic shift to the Republican Party, North Carolina Republicans have filed a flurry of bills aimed at transgender youth as they look to capitalize on their newly attained supermajority. Five Senate bills filed this week before the chamber’s Thursday filing deadline would ban gender-affirming medical procedures for transgender youth …

Idaho to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth
1 year, 8 months ago

Idaho to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — Starting next year, anyone in Idaho who provides gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could end up a convicted felon, after the state’s Republican governor signed legislation banning the treatment late Tuesday. Opponents of the legislation say it will likely increase suicide rates among teens, but proponents say the bill is necessary to “protect children” from medical …

SC senators advance ban on gender-affirming care for minors
1 year, 8 months ago

SC senators advance ban on gender-affirming care for minors

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — About five dozen advocates for transgender youth rallied outside the South Carolina State House as Republican senators joined their conservative counterparts nationwide in advancing a ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors. Matt Sharp, a senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a national Christian conservative advocacy group, said it “would protect children and parents from being …

Nebraska Legislature set to vote on transgender health bill
1 year, 9 months ago

Nebraska Legislature set to vote on transgender health bill

The Independent  

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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 …

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 …

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 …

Tennessee closes in on trans youth care ban; lawsuit pledged
1 year, 10 months ago

Tennessee closes in on trans youth care ban; lawsuit pledged

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s Republican-led Senate approved a measure Monday that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors, spurring civil rights groups to promise an immediate lawsuit if and when it becomes law. Yet Tennessee in particular has been caught in the center of this conflict ever since video surfaced on social media last year of a Nashville doctor touting …

Lawmakers in GOP states target medical care for trans kids
1 year, 10 months ago

Lawmakers in GOP states target medical care for trans kids

Associated Press  

OKLAHOMA CITY — Republican attacks on gender affirming medical care for young people continued Wednesday in several conservative states that are among more than two dozen considering similar bans nationwide. Lawmakers in Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Dakota considered bills Wednesday that would prohibit gender affirming treatments, like the use of puberty-blocking drugs and hormones, despite the endorsement of such treatments …

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