
Vatican Doctrine Office: Transgender-Identifying People Can Be Baptized, Witness Marriages
The dicastery’s response is dated Oct. 31 and signed by DDF Prefect Cardinal Victor Fernández and Pope Francis.
The dicastery’s response is dated Oct. 31 and signed by DDF Prefect Cardinal Victor Fernández and Pope Francis.
The ruling, issued by Judge John Van Laningham, advises the state’s Education Practices Commission to exonerate the teacher, Yojary Mundaray, and not take any further disciplinary action against her.
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, and Rep. Scott Franklin, R-Florida, filed resolutions in their respective legislative chambers to overturn this rule.
The law expires on Aug. 28, 2027, and also prohibits transgender adults from access to transgender health care under Medicaid, and bars ‘gender-affirming’ surgery for prisoners and inmates.
“I suspect the numbers are actually much larger than this,” Richards added. “We just can’t track it all.”
The vote sets up a standoff between the Senate and House as they try to hammer out a compromise version of the normally noncontroversial legislation.
The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth cited a purported rise in transphobia as a reason to amend the state’s child-abuse laws.
The full name of the exhibit at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in Manhattan was ‘God is Trans: A Queer Spiritual Journey.’
Most Republicans opposed the legislation and fought to include amendments that would have prohibited Medicaid from covering sex change surgeries for children or at least required both parents to consent.
Oklahoma is one of 15 other states that have taken steps to ban the controversial procedure for minors.
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