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Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Trans Youth Health Care
3 weeks ago

Supreme Court Weighs Future Of Trans Youth Health Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments for the most important transgender rights case it has ever reviewed — one that could have significant consequences on the future of lifesaving gender-affirming care for youth in the country. The Tennessee law, Senate Bill 1, encourages minors to “appreciate their sex” by prohibiting puberty blockers or hormone …

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Four "youth village" abuse victims make formal police complaints
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Four "youth village" abuse victims make formal police complaints

Dutch News  

Four adults who were taken into care and placed with families in a special village in the 1980s and 1990s say they were physically and sexually abused during their time there, the Telegraaf reported on Wedesday. The four have all made formal police complaints about their mistreatment, said to be at the hands of one man who worked in the …

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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” — …

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Texas becomes largest state to ban transgender care for minors
1 year, 6 months ago

Texas becomes largest state to ban transgender care for minors

The Hindu  

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday signed a bill that bans transgender healthcare including puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors, making Texas the largest of the 20 states to have outlawed gender-affirming care. Republican lawmakers across the country have promoted similar bills, saying they mistrust the consensus among major medical associations that endorse gender-affirming care as needed and even …

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1,000 Amsterdam kids could lose youth care next year due to reorganization
1 year, 9 months ago

1,000 Amsterdam kids could lose youth care next year due to reorganization

NL Times  

Reforms of the municipality of Amsterdam’s youth system mean that a thousand Amsterdam children and teenagers will no longer have access to the youth care aid they are currently receiving next year. Amsterdam has to cut back its youth care budget from 340 million euros last year to around 294 million in 2026, according to the newspaper. Alderman Marjolein Moorman …

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Drop age limit for youth care to protect young people from homelessness: foundation
1 year, 11 months ago

Drop age limit for youth care to protect young people from homelessness: foundation

NL Times  

Many young people end up homeless after their 18th birthday because they no longer qualify for youth care. The Forgotten Child Foundation, therefore, called on the government to abandon the age limit for youth care. “Dutch children leave home on average at the age of 23, but young people in residential youth care must be ready for the world at …

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Netherlands ranks 4th for children’s rights, despite air pollution, youth care waitlists
2 years, 2 months ago

Netherlands ranks 4th for children’s rights, despite air pollution, youth care waitlists

NL Times  

The Netherlands is fourth in the world ranking for children’s rights, the KidsRights Index. The two biggest problems children in the Netherlands deal with are air pollution and long waiting lists in youth care, the children’s rights organization KidsRights said in the tenth edition of its ranking, published on Wednesday. This is mainly due to long waiting lists in youth …

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Florida Gov Ron DeSantis moves to ban transgender youth and Medicaid recipients from all transition care
2 years, 6 months ago

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis moves to ban transgender youth and Medicaid recipients from all transition care

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. Read our privacy policy The administration of Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has asked …

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Alabama Legislature votes to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth
2 years, 8 months ago

Alabama Legislature votes to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth

NPR  

Alabama Legislature votes to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth Enlarge this image toggle caption Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers approved sweeping legislation Thursday to outlaw gender-affirming medications for transgender kids and advanced a separate measure prohibiting early classroom instruction on sexual and gender identity, a bill …

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Young people in youth care report frequent verbal and physical violence
2 years, 9 months ago

Young people in youth care report frequent verbal and physical violence

NL Times  

About a quarter of young people staying in youth care institutions have experienced physical violence and almost half have experienced verbal violence. It was not specified whether the verbal and physical violence came from care providers or other young people. In youth care, 81 percent of young people indicated that they feel safe with their supervisor and institution and 23 …

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Closed youth institutions forced girls to take contraceptives: report
2 years, 10 months ago

Closed youth institutions forced girls to take contraceptives: report

NL Times  

Girls in closed youth care institutions were forced to take contraception, according to investigative journalistic platform Pointer after conversations with former employees and former patients. Closed youth care institutions care for children who would pose a risk to themselves or those around them without treatment, for example, due to domestic violence or sexual abuse. Pointer found that some institutions force …

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Half of youth care providers making high profits: researchers
3 years, 1 month ago

Half of youth care providers making high profits: researchers

NL Times  

Over half of youth care providers make more than 10 percent profit, while 3 to 7 percent profit in care is the norm, and other earnings are supposed to be spent on care. The researchers analyzed a total of 2,107 youth care providers' annual accounts from 2019. The researchers also discovered signals of illegality at 17 percent of youth care …

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Municipalities using youth care money to fill other gaps: report
3 years, 2 months ago

Municipalities using youth care money to fill other gaps: report

NL Times  

Municipalities in the Netherlands are using part of 1.3 billion euros extra dedicated to youth care to stop other gaps in the budget, many of which arose due to high youth care costs, NOS reports after surveying the 352 municipalities. Caretaker State Secretary Paul Blokhuis of Public Health told the broadcaster that the budget can be used for other social …

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Municipalities to get an extra €1.3 billion for youth care
3 years, 6 months ago

Municipalities to get an extra €1.3 billion for youth care

NL Times  

Dutch municipalities will receive an additional 1.3 billion euros next year to close up gaps in youth care in addition to 300 million euros in extra funding already committed. The support from the national government also requires municipalities to take measures to cut 214 million in certain youth care expenditures. It ruled that the State had to close the financial …

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Youth care waiting times dangerously long; 10 months on average: Foundation
3 years, 6 months ago

Youth care waiting times dangerously long; 10 months on average: Foundation

NL Times  

Children who need help from youth care on average have to wait 10 months to get it, foundation Het Vergeten Kind said to NOS. That is dangerously long for children with mental health problems and kids living in an unstable home, said the foundation that works for neglected and abused children. "Existing problems worsen, the tension in the family rises, …

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ACLU lawsuit challenges Arkansas trans youth treatment ban
3 years, 6 months ago

ACLU lawsuit challenges Arkansas trans youth treatment ban

Associated Press  

— The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Tuesday to strike down a new Arkansas law that made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments or surgery for transgender youth. “If the health care ban goes into effect, it will have devastating consequences for transgender youth in Arkansas,” the lawsuit said. Neighboring Tennessee is the only …

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Municipalities spend tens of millions of Euros on custody battles each year
3 years, 10 months ago

Municipalities spend tens of millions of Euros on custody battles each year

NL Times  

Municipalities spend between 66 to 88 million euros annually on guiding parents who end up in a conflicting divorce. For this guidance, the youth protection service receives 9,500 to 11,000 euros per child per year. Pointer and Follow the Money followed five parents for more than a year and a half of them barely saw their children due to a …

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