“A comprehensive approach to transgender health research should consider the entire lifespan, from childhood through older adulthood. Journalists can help highlight the importance of long-term studies and the need for age-specific health interventions for transgender and gender-diverse people. “
AP reports: “The families of Parker Tirrell (photo), 15, and Iris Turmelle, 14, sued in August seeking to overturn the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act that Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law in July. While Turmelle doesn’t plan to play sports until December, Tirrell successfully sought an emergency order allowing her to start soccer practice last month. That order was expiring Tuesday.
“In issuing a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Landya McCafferty found Tirrell and Turmelle were likely to succeed in their lawsuit. She found that the students “demonstrated a likelihood of irreparable harm” in the absence of a preliminary order.”
Bailey Anne has become Maryland’s first trans woman titleholder. She is also Maryland’s first Asian American winner and the oldest contestant to represent the state in the Miss USA pageant.
Beyond the party’s health care protections, which would “require that federal health plans provide coverage for gender confirmation surgery, and hormone therapy,” Democrats also vow to enact other policies making legal services more accessible for transgender people, including “guaranteeing transgender students’ access to facilities based on their gender identity.”
“We will ensure that all transgender and non-binary people can procure official government identification documents that accurately reflect their gender identity,” the platform states. “We will stop employment discrimination in the federal government, and will restore full implementation of President Obama’s executive order prohibiting discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Walz: This is what these folks are focusing on. Like reading about about two male penguins who love each other is somehow going to turn your children gay… It’s a fact of life some people are gay, but you know what’s not a fact of life? That our children get shot dead in schools. pic.twitter.com/tFAXOMkZNG
New York Times: ” Since Mr. Walz was picked as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, conservative groups, including the Alliance Defending Freedom …have claimed that the Minnesota state authorities can terminate the parental rights of parents who prevent their children from receiving gender-affirming care…PolitiFact, citing legal experts and family law practitioners in Minnesota, concluded that the law ‘does not authorize the government to take custody of children whose parents don’t consent to them getting gender-affirming care.'”
The collection’s first single, a cover of Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U” from Lauren Auder and former Prince & the Revolution members Wendy & Lisa, is out now.
What are puberty blockers? What are the benefits and risks for transgender children?
“If adolescents take these medications during puberty, bodily changes associated with puberty are prevented. If these medications are stopped, these bodily changes resume.”
After ousted from the Texas House for opposing gender-transitioning care for children, Dem. Rep. Shawn Thierry has a job in an international anti-trans policy group.
