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• Choirboy’s hidden note found in church pew 125 years on

A hidden message from an orphanage choirboy pleading not to be forgotten has been found after it lay undisturbed in a church pew for 125 years. The letter by 13-year-old William Elliott was written on August 11 1897 on the back of a chorister’s order of service at Sunderland Parish Church.
(Tom Wilkinson, UK News, March 28, 2022 )

• Experts say sex offender registries don't work. Can they be fixed?

The vast majority of Americans believe sex offender registries make their communities safer, according to polls. A growing body of research, however, suggests otherwise. A long list of studies using decades of data have found no significant evidence that registries prevent sex crimes. Some even indicate that the laws imposed on sex offenders may make them more likely to commit crimes in the future.
(Mike Bebernes, Yahoo News, March 24, 2022 )

• A third of trans kids risk losing gender-affirming care under swathe of cruel bills, study finds

An estimated 58,200 trans youth are at risk of losing access to gender-affirming healthcare as a direct result of Republican-led attempts to ban treatments.
(Maggie Baska, Pink News, March 22, 2022 )

• Native American boy, 7, cries after bully classmates hacked-off his long hair at school while teacher was looking away, as his outraged parents call for investigation

A Native American boy aged just seven was left in tears after two bullies cut his hair while their teacher was busy on her laptop. Andreas Garcia came home from Del City Elementary last week without his usual and traditional long locks.
(Alastair Talbot, The Daily Mail, March 22, 2022 )

• Teleiophile Nevada father kills 5-year-old son over TV show'

A dad is facing murder charges after he allegedly told cops he whipped his son to death because he didn’t approve of the TV show the boy was watching.
(Caitlin Hornik, The Sun, March 19, 2022 )

• Bill Promotes California As US Refuge For Transgender Youth

The bill is meant to help parents in other states who risk being criminally prosecuted for supporting their children’s access to gender-affirming procedures and other health care.
(Don Thompson, , March 17, 2022 )

• Confusion And Terror Reign In Texas For Families Of Trans Teenagers

Amid unprecedented attacks, including harassment from state officials, many families are dreading the next knock on the door.
(Sydney Bauer, Huffposst, March 15, 2022 )

• Idaho passes bill that would send loving parents of trans kids to prison for life

The bill would ban puberty-blocking treatment, hormone therapy, and gender confirmation surgery and make it a felony if parents or doctors provide it. But it would also make it a felony to take your child out of state to get the healthcare recommended by every major medical authority in the country. The sentence would be life in prison and the removal of the children from the home.
( Bil Browning , LGBTQ Nation, March 11, 2022 )

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• ‘Belfast’ kid actor Jude Hill gambled with Dame Judi Dench on set

It’s not every 11-year-old who spends their days listening to dirty jokes from and making bets with Dame Judi Dench.But not every boy is Jude Hill, who play scene-stealing Buddy in the Oscar-nominated film “Belfast,” which follows a working-class family during the Troubles in the late 1960s.
(Sara Nathan, The New York Post, March 9, 2022 )

• Florida’s monstrous ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill passes final hurdle and heads to governor’s desk

After more than six hours of debate, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill on Tuesday (8 March), in a 22 to 17 vote. Two Republican state senators joined Democrats in voting against the bill. It will now head to the desk of Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis, who is expected to sign the bill into law.
(Lily Wakefield, Pink News, US, March 8, 2022 )