
Massachusetts Panel Says Child-Abuse Laws Should Protect Transgender Kids From Parents
The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth cited a purported rise in transphobia as a reason to amend the state’s child-abuse laws.
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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After it is signed into law, the bill will take effect July 1, 2023, and prohibit sex change surgeries, the use of puberty blockers, and hormone therapies on children under the age of 18.
Religious medical groups including Franciscan Alliance, Christian Medical and Dental Society, and Specialty Physicians of Illinois fought to stop the requirement from taking effect.
The change follows the closing of what was the world’s largest child-gender clinic, Tavistock Clinic, due to concerns raised by an independent review and complaints from patient families.
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For 25 years, Meriwether has served as a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, a public university of about 3,400 undergraduates in Portsmouth, Ohio.
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