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Category: legislature

Texas attorney general declares gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids ‘child abuse’

Rating: Transneutral, Texas Newsroom, February 22, 2022 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Texas attorney general declares gender-affirming medical care for transgender kids ‘child abuse’ By Joseph Leahy | The Texas Newsroom Published February 22, 2022 at 1:35 PM CST Ken Paxton’s legal opinion issued Monday defines certain gender-affirming medical treatments for minors…

February 22, 2022
Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill That Would Ban Trans Women and Girls from Female Sports

Democratic Hawaii Rep. and former 2020 Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard introduced a bill into the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday that would dictate Title IX protections for female athletes be based on biological sex—a term often used to refer to gender assigned to a person at birth—thats advocate have decried as inherently transphobic. Rating: Transneutral, Time,…

December 11, 2020
Right-wing and evangelical media helped land anti-trans parent group the Kelsey Coalition in USA Today

The Kelsey Coalition has been promoting harmful junk science in the media and to policymakers. Rating: Transsupportive, Media Matters, August 16, 2019 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

August 16, 2019
Anti-LGBTQ group Heritage Foundation has hosted four anti-trans panels so far in 2019

Panelists included “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” and anti-trans medical professionals who pushed flawed research and advocated for conversion therapy. Rating: Transsupportive, Media Matters, April 18, 2019 (PDF archive) (HTML archive)

April 18, 2019