Good News! Trans youth healthcare ban defeated in the Senate
The ban was attached to a plan to defund subsidies for health insurance plans bought through the public market.
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By requiring trans people to identify themselves by their sex assigned at birth, and with a looming threat of prosecution for noncompliance, the Trump Administration is compelling every trans person to out themselves to the Federal Government.
The ban was attached to a plan to defund subsidies for health insurance plans bought through the public market.
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The US federal government is poised to codify that trans lives are inherently wasteful and effectively end transition for most people across the entire United States.
The bill would be both the first federal trans sports ban, and also codify sex as only referring to how people were born.
There is only one decent option for dealing with trans people in gendered spaces: let us go where we feel we belong. Any other option makes us look and feel ridiculous, and insisting that we follow some other option makes you look ridiculous.
Missed Connections With Tall Girls is, first and foremost, a book about being homeless and broke.
This hearing shows that parental groups and tech lobbyists agree on the broad strokes of what children’s access to the internet should look like.
Broadly, this new precedent could mean that any faith-based organization now has free license to discriminate based on internal policies. It remains to be seen if this will remain state-wide precedent or be elevated to a SCOTUS case.