#transgender-youth

#transgender-youth

A Trump-appointed judge in Indiana has blocked parts of a state law banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth from going into effect next month.The law, known as SEA 480, which Indiana's Republican-controlled legislature passed earlier this year, prohibits physicians from providing minors with treatments such as puberty blocking medication, hormone therapy and surgery intended to help transition genders.

A prominent transgender advocate in Texas said she was forcibly removed - and subsequently banned for a year - from the state Capitol after displaying a banner in support of trans kids during a protest on Tuesday.Sofia Sepulveda was protesting against SB 14, a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

A federal judge in Indiana largely blocked that state's ban on transition medical care for youth from taking effect on July 1, the latest in a series of courtroom wins for transgender-rights advocates.The preliminary injunction, issued on Friday by Judge James Patrick Hanlon, allows transgender children in Indiana to continue receiving hormone treatments and puberty blockers while a lawsuit opposing the state's ban progresses.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for most minors in the state, making Texas the largest state in the US to place restrictions on transgender youth's access to critical care.Senate Bill 14bars health care providers from providing gender transition surgeries, puberty blocking medication or hormone therapies to those under 18 in Texas, with violators at risk of losing their licenses.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's staff this summer tried to gather information on transgender people in the state based on who had changed their gender on their driver's licenses.Someone from Paxton's office asked the Texas Department of Public Safety to provide a list of these residents, The Washington Post reports.

The Republican-dominated Kentucky legislature voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to override the governor's veto of a bill that will create a host of new regulations and restrictions on transgender youth, including banning access to what doctors call gender-affirming health care.The bill, described by L.G.B.T.Q.

Florida is among a growing number of states to ban gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers or hormones, for transgender youth.MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: We are seeing a growing number of Republican-led states move to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth under the age of 18.That care includes puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law Monday banning gender-affirming care for minors with the possibility of a felony charge for health care professionals who provide it.Senate Bill 613 bars health care professionals from providing gender-affirming care to those under the age of 18 in the form of surgeries, puberty blocking medication and hormone treatments.

Four families in Florida sued the state on Thursday over new rules prohibiting gender-affirming care for transgender youth, arguing the bans violate the US Constitution and should be thrown out.The two new rules from Florida's Boards of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine prohibit medical professionals in the state from providing gender-affirming care to minors in the state with gender dysphoria, including by administering puberty blockers, providing cross-sex hormone therapy and performing sex reassignment surgeries, or any other surgical procedures, that alter primary or secondary sexual characteristics.

President Joe Biden called efforts to restrict transgender rights in Florida close to sinful in an interview released Monday, suggesting federal laws should be passed to protect those rights in all states.What's going on in Florida is, as my mother would say, close to sinful.It's just terrible what they're doing, Biden said during an interview with Kal Penn for The Daily Show.

Florida educational officials have threatened to revoke the teaching license of a publicly elected school superintendent and possibly remove him from office after he encouraged students and teachers to oppose Gov. Ron DeSantis 's (R) infamous Don't Say Gay law.Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. sent a letter to Leon County Superintendent Rocky Hanna earlier this month threatening his license.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is the latest Republican politician to insist that kids are using litter boxes in schools as part of a rant attacking transgender youth.During a recent tele-town hall event, Johnson was questioned by a caller who claimed that his niece told him that her school had provided litter boxes for students who believe they are cats.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on Friday vetoed a sweeping bill passed by Republican lawmakers that would drastically restrict the rights of transgender youth in the commonwealth - though GOP lawmakers can still override his veto.Senate Bill 150, slammed by LGBTQ advocates as "dangerous" and "unprecedented," would "terrorize transgender youth in schools, in doctor's offices, and even could put them in danger at home," according to Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director of the Human Rights Campaign.

AP Photo/Julio Cortez U.S. Women's soccer star Becky Sauerbrunn wrote an opinion piece for the Springfield News-Leader offering her support for transgender athletes in women's sports.Missouri has a proposed bill called the Save Women's Sports Act to ban transgender athletes from playing female sports.

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The recent explosion in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric across the country is dramatically affecting LGBTQ youth - especially transgender and nonbinary kids and young adults - according to a poll released Thursday.An overwhelming majority of queer and transgender youth in the U.S. say the growing number of policies restricting their rights have negatively impacted their mental health, leading to feelings of anxiety, fear, sadness and stress, the poll found.

Wednesday, December 28, 2022 by Jonathan Lee
Fresh off the heels of a decisive reelection win, City Council Member Paige Ellis is ready to hit the ground running in 2023 with initiatives related to housing, transportation and workforce retention.Ellis won reelection  with 58 percent of the vote in November, avoiding a runoff.

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"Jeopardy!" champ Amy Schneider testified Wednesday against an Ohio bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the state.The Ohio native - who became a household name after winning40 consecutive games on the popular quiz show from November 2021 to January 2022 - opened up about life as a transgender woman, and the relief she felt after transitioning.

Transgender Jeopardy!champion Amy Schneider will testify Wednesday morning in the Ohio legislature against a bill that would block transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming medical care and require teachers to out trans kids to their unaccepting parents."It's so important that LGBTQ+ Ohioans and those who love them fight to protect the children whose health and safety would be endangered by this misguided legislation," Schneider, said in a statement released by Equality Ohio, the state's LGBTQ advocacy organization.

The banning of gender-affirming care for transgender youth in Florida took one step closer to becoming a reality after a joint committee of the state's two medical boards voted in favor of a proposed rule that could drastically limit care for the treatment of gender dysphoria in minors.In a contentious five-hour meeting in Orlando on Friday, members from the state's board of medicine and osteopathic medicine voted in favor of sending the controversial rule to the full boards on Friday.