Category: laws
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Judge Blocks Florida Bill That Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
This action presents a constitutional challenge to a Florida statute and rules that (1) prohibit transgender minors from receiving specific kinds of widely accepted medical care and (2) prohibit doctors from providing it. The treatments at issue are GnRH agonists, colloquially known as “puberty blockers,” and cross-sex hormones. This order grants a preliminary injunction. Rating:…
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LGBTQ Americans Are In A State of Emergency, HRC Declares
LGBTQ+ Americans are facing “real, tangible and dangerous” threats, said Human Rights Campaign CEO Kelley Robinson. Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, June 6, 2023 (PDF archive)
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San Francisco’s Deep History of Policing Public Cross-Dressing
A 19th-century law led to over 100 local arrests of people wearing clothes typical of the opposite sex — an archaic ban akin to Tennessee’s recent law banning public drag, which has now been blocked and deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge. Rating: Transsupportive, Underscore, June 5, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Texas Becomes Most Populous State To Ban Gender-Affirming Care For Minors
Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill into law on Friday, making Texas one of at least 19 states to have enacted similar bans. Huffington Post, June 4, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law Is Driving Teachers To Quit
“You cannot teach kids to be gay or straight,” Alyssa Marano said. “I just want my kids to be able to solve for X.” Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, June 2, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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Bloody roses — deconstructing the predatory trans* women myth
Simple question for you: how many women were convicted of sexual assault or other sex crimes in the UK since 2018? Try to Google the answer and you will the UK government’s Office of National Statistics has not publicly provided the sex of convicted sex offenders. It has for the victims, along with a range…
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Drag Show Artists Fear Crackdown As Texas Passes Sexual Conduct Bill
Texas would expand what is considered an illegal public performance of sexual conduct, under a bill approved late Sunday by state lawmakers that drag artists fear will be used to criminalize their shows. Huffington Post, May 29, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Texas and Uganda pass new anti-gay laws
Lawmakers in Texas passed a law on Sunday banning “public performance of sexual conduct” which prohibits “prurient” drag and “accessories or prosthetics that enhance the female or male form” in public, or anywhere children might see it. It is “part of a broader effort in Texas and other conservative states to crack down on drag…
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Track Trans Legislation
Track the anti-trans legislation proposed this year. https://www.tracktranslegislation.com/