... a right to their children’s health and well-being, they, in fact, have the responsibility of it.” Last year, Holcomb vetoed a bill banning transgender students from competing in girls school sports that has since become law after Republican legislators voted to override his action. The American Civil Liberties ...
... gender identity with students of any age. Another key provision would require school districts to devise bathroom policies that, “at a minimum,” would not allow transgender children to use the bathroom aligned with their gender identities. It also would allow teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by the ...
Track and field banned transgender athletes from international competition Thursday while adopting new regulations that could keep Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing. In a pair of decisions expected to stoke outrage, the World Athletics Council adopted the same rules as swimming did last ...
... transgender children and require physicians to violate medical standards of care. They also accused Republicans of abandoning previous advocacy of parents' rights to make choices. Transgender youth and parents heavily lobbied against the bill in recent weeks, warning lawmakers were further marginalizing a group already prone to taking their own ...
... restroom or changing room of the opposite sex when a minor is present. "It's a flagrant message from them that they refuse to respect (transgender people's) rights and humanity, to respect Arkansans' rights and humanity," said Holly Dickson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas ...
... 36. Republicans initially proposed a 30-year window for lawsuits. Although they are now due to expire in four years, the limits on competing for transgender athletes are more restrictive than Republican Sen. Holly Rehder’s original plan. Initially, she proposed limits for only K-12 public school students. The ...
With the 2022 election, Democrats in Minnesota took control of both chambers of the state's legislature for the first time in nine years. Gov. Tim Walz joined the state's House and Senate leadership in pushing reforms like voting rights for felons and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants. The reform latest safeguards the rights of trans...
A bill that would ban evidence-based health care for transgender minors in West Virginia, the state estimated to have more transgender youth per capita than any other in the nation, is headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice.
... tell young people and families that we can’t provide the care that they need.” This week, providers saw a 12-year-old patient, a transgender girl whose relatives said they'd known her identity since she was 3. She expressed distress about her voice deepening or growing hair on ...
... That decision should be left later in adult life. William Brangham: Erin Reed, what do you make of that argument? Erin Reed: The idea that transgender youth are being treated abusively by their parents, I think, is -- stands in stark reality to some of the clips that you had played ...
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