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All posts tagged "LGBTQ"
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1.0KNewsAlabama cites abortion ruling in transgender medication case
Days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can prohibit abortion, Alabama has seized on the decision to argue that the...
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1.0KGrantsNew England LGBTQ+ youth support and community project grants
GRANT FOCUS: LGBTQ Youth, Child/Youth Welfare, Child/Youth Mental Health, Community | Amount: Up to $20,000 | Deadline: July 21, 2022
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3.8KNews‘There’s no safe place’: One queer youth shelter serves all of New Mexico
LGBTQ+ youth experience homelessness at significantly higher rates than their peers. In Albuquerque, New Mexico's only shelter specifically for queer young people provides...
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3.4KNewsTrans kids’ treatment can start younger, new guidelines say
A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex hormones and surgeries. The...
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1.7KFrom the BureausThere’s litigation and innovation involving LGBTQ juveniles, a disproportionately larger group
Tailor-made services are important for many justice-involved LGBTQ youth and young adults their advocates contend, because those individuals’ encounters with law enforcement,...
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3.2K► Reports2022 National survey on LGBTQ youth mental health
The Trevor Project releases findings from the 2022 edition of its annual National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health.
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1.3KNewsTransgender medication law in Alabama blocked by judge
A federal judge on Friday blocked part of an Alabama law that made it a felony to prescribe gender-affirming puberty blockers and...
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1.1KNewsMixed Texas ruling allows trans youth parent investigations
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday allowed the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse while also ruling in...
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702GrantsJustice-involved LGBTQ+ youth support center grant
GRANT FOCUS: LGBTQ+ Youth, Justice-Involved Youth, Juvenile Justice, Two-Spirit Youth | Amount: Up to $1,000,000 | Deadline: June 8, 2022
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877NewsTransgender treatment, doctors threatened by new Alabama law
Dr. Hussein Abdul-Latif spent the last week typing out prescription refills for his young transgender patients, trying to make sure they had...
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1.2KNewsGeorgia high school athletic group bans transgender athletes
The main athletic association for Georgia high schools voted Wednesday to ban transgender boys and girls from playing on the school sports...
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1.2KNewsEarly transgender identity tends to endure, study suggests
Children who begin identifying as transgender at a young age tend to retain that identity at least for several years, a study...
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1.1KNewsLawmakers in 19 states want legal refuge for trans youth
Democratic lawmakers in more than a dozen states are following California's lead in seeking to offer legal refuge to displaced transgender youth...
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2.3KOpinionThe Remix with Karen Pittman: Policies that erase Black, brown or LGBTQ youth are a crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on teens, accelerating the declines in youth mental health that were evident before the pandemic....
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1.8KNewsEXPLAINER: What medical treatments do transgender youth get?
Transgender medical treatment for children and teens is increasingly under attack in many states, labeled child abuse and subject to criminalizing bans....
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Trans kids fear Alabama laws targeting medicine, bathrooms
Alabama is among multiple states with Republican-controlled legislatures that have advanced bills not only to block medical treatment but to ban transgender...
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1.5KNewsGeorgia lawmakers hand transgender decision to sports group
Georgia lawmakers dumped the thorny problem of whether transgender athletes should be allowed to play high school sports onto the state's main...
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1.0KNewsCaseworkers: Texas order on trans kids handled differently
When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott put in motion abuse investigations into the parents of some transgender kids, child welfare supervisor Randa Mulanax...
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2.1KNews‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law on Monday that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten...
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1.5KNewsTexas judge blocks investigations of trans youth parents
A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating as child abuse gender confirming care for transgender youth. District Judge Amy...
