Category: North America
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Ron DeSantis loses again in court on anti-transgender health law
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down regulations in Florida that banned government healthcare programs from paying for treatments like puberty-blocking medication and hormone therapy for transgender people. Rating: Transneutral, Business Insider, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Legal document)
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Middletown BOE Approves Controversial Transgender Student Policy
The Middletown school district is now required to notify parents if their child seeks to go by a different name or gender pronoun. Rating: Transneutral, Patch, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive)
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Granite City transgender filmmaker says ‘Keep doing’ to overcome hate
With zero irony filmmaker Colton Crawford said it’s “all about love.” Rating: Transneutral, Alton Telegraph, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)
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Anti-transgender event held at Vergennes Union High School leads to hundreds of protestors
A controversial discussion was held inside Vergennes Union High School Tuesday night. It was a discussion on transgenderism with a well-known guest speaker, whose sex reassignment surgery didn’t work out for him. Rating: Transphobic, NBC, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive)
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Ohio House passes ban on minor gender-affirming care, trans athletes in girls’ sports
The Ohio House passed a bill making it illegal for minors to take puberty blockers, have gender reassignment surgery, and barring transgender athletes from female-only sports. Rating: Transneutral, ABC, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)
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Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine OKs continuation rule on transgender care
Rating: Transneutral, WUSF, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)
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Tennessee AG seeks patient referrals, doctor records in broad VUMC transgender clinic inquiry
New records filed in federal court outline the information the Attorney General’s Office is seeking from Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Those documents extend beyond patient medical records. Rating: Transneutral, Tennessean, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)
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Judge strikes down Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors
A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional Tuesday, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states adopt similar restrictions. Rating: Transneutral, Associated Press, June 20, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive)
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Vanderbilt University turns over transgender patients’ medical records to Tennessee AG’s office
Rating: Transneutral, Daily Mail, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive)
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Robert F Kennedy blames Aids on poppers and claims chemicals turn kids trans
Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who is contesting the Democrat nomination for the 2024 US election, has claimed that children are being turned trans through chemical exposure, and poppers were a pathway to Aids. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, June 21, 2023 (PDF archive)