Congressional Democrats on Thursday reintroduced a bill to codify federal protections for transgender Americans, as a number of states have passed anti-trans legislation and the Republican-controlled U.S. House is advancing restrictions. The Transgender Bill of Rights, introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts ahead of the International Transgender… Source Source / Read More: Democrats Reintroduce Federal Trans Bill of Rights Amid GOP Attacks
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Gender-Affirming Health Care Bans Also Impact Families and Medical Providers
Trans activists are warning that recent legislation banning gender-affirming care threatens an onslaught of devastating health complications and mental health struggles for transgender youth nationwide. Teenage access to vital gender-affirming health care has been restricted or banned in 10 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia… Source Source / Read More: Gender-Affirming Health Care Bans Also Impact Families and Medical Providers
Trans and Nonbinary Youth Say Their Health Care Shouldn’t Be Up for “Debate”
“Child abusers.” Those were the words anti-trans activists were shouting as they interrupted a rally held by hundreds of civil rights and LGBTQ activists who gathered at the Texas Capitol in Austin on Monday. The rhetoric was just as heated inside at a marathon committee hearing on legislation that would ban gender-affirming health care for people under the age of 18. Source Source / Read More: Trans and Nonbinary Youth Say Their Health Care Shouldn’t Be Up for “Debate”
Kentucky Governor Vetoes Sweeping Anti-Trans Bill Banning Care for Trans Youth
Kentucky Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed a sweeping anti-LGBTQ bill on Friday that would have banned gender-affirming care for trans children and put LGBTQ children in danger at school and at home. The bill, Senate Bill 150, would have banned medically necessary, life-saving care for trans children, forcing transitioning children to detransition and requiring them to use locker rooms and… Source Source / Read More: Kentucky Governor Vetoes Sweeping Anti-Trans Bill Banning Care for Trans Youth
50 Percent of Trans Youth in Danger of Losing Access to Gender-Affirming Care
Over half of high school-aged transgender youth are in danger of losing access to gender-affirming care, according to newly released data from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). As reported by the Williams Institute, there are more than 300,000 high school-aged trans kids, ages 13 to 17, in the U.S. Half of them (50.4 percent, or 151,300 total) live in states where trans youth have lost access or… Source Source / Read More: 50 Percent of Trans Youth in Danger of Losing Access to Gender-Affirming Care
Gender-Affirming Care Ban in KY Could Have “Deadly Consequences,” Experts Warn
Health experts in Kentucky have sounded the alarm about a proposed bill that would ban gender-affirming care for transgender children in the state. House Bill 470 is possibly the “the worst” piece of legislation in the country for LGBTQ people and could have “deadly consequences” if passed into law, LGBTQ advocates and medical experts say. The bill would vaguely ban “gender-affirming services” for… Source Source / Read More: Gender-Affirming Care Ban in KY Could Have “Deadly Consequences,” Experts Warn
In Utah, Trans Teens’ Health Is at Risk After Gender-Affirming Care Ban
This story was originally published by The 19th If you or a loved one are in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. Marisa McPeck-Stringham, a mental health therapist in Layton, Utah, watched an unsettling pattern unfold last week: Six of her clients, all transgender teenagers… Source Source / Read More: In Utah, Trans Teens’ Health Is at Risk After Gender-Affirming Care Ban
State Legislatures Are Now Targeting Health Care for Transgender Adults
Originally published by The 19th. Lawmakers in at least eight states used the last two months of 2022 to prefile anti-transgender bills ahead of state legislative sessions convening this month — setting up another year of statehouse battles over trans rights, while targeting health care for trans adults in new ways. Most states moving early on anti-trans bills focused on banning gender-affirming… Source Source / Read More: State Legislatures Are Now Targeting Health Care for Transgender Adults
Belarus: Trial against Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski a ‘shameful pretense’ of justice
Reacting to the beginning of a court hearing in the politically motivated case against Ales Bialiatski, 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and chair of the Viasna human rights group, and his colleagues Valiantsin Stefanovich, Uladzimir Labkovich and Dzmitry Salauyou, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The trial against Ales Bialiatski and […] The post Belarus: Trial against Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski a ‘shameful pretense’ of justice appeared first on Amnesty International.
Texas AG Ken Paxton Asked Agency to Compile List of Trans Residents in the State
This past summer, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton requested employees at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to do a sweeping search of its database to provide him with names of individuals who, over the past two years, changed their gender on their driver’s licenses and other records. To some, the search appears to be a clear request to find out who in the state is a… Source Source / Read More: Texas AG Ken Paxton Asked Agency to Compile List of Trans Residents in the State
Iran: Authorities covering up their crimes of child killings by coercing families into silence
The Iranian authorities’ arbitrary arrest, intimidation and harassment of relatives of children, unlawfully gunned down or beaten to death by security forces in connection with protests, exposes their inconceivable cruelty and sinister attempt to cover up their crimes, said Amnesty International today. In updated research, Amnesty International has documented how the unlawful killings of children […] The post Iran: Authorities covering up their crimes of child killings by coercing families into silence appeared first on Amnesty International.
Florida Moves to Ban Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
LGBTQ+ advocates expressed outrage — and resolve — after a joint committee of Florida’s two medical boards moved a step closer to adopting a draft rule backed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that would ban doctors from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youth. After five often heated hours of testimony, a joint committee of the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine voted in favor of a proposal to bar doctors in the state from prescribing puberty-blocking and hormone treatments for patients younger than 18. The proposed rule would also prohibit gender-affirming surgery for minors, which…