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- How can a first grader understand gender? I don’t know that they really do ― but isn’t that the whole point? Maxim instinctively knew he was a boy and not a girl. He didn’t have to understand the construct of it because it was what he felt ― it’s just who he knows he is.
(Judith Schmidt,The Huffpost, US, March 2, 2022 )
- How can a first grader understand gender? I don’t know that they really do ― but isn’t that the whole point? Maxim instinctively knew he was a boy and not a girl. He didn’t have to understand the construct of it because it was what he felt ― it’s just who he knows he is.
- A bill to put supportive parents of trans kids in jail failed. Now the Republican governor and attorney general are trying to declare them child abusers themselves.
(Alex Bollinger, LGBTQ Nation, US, February 23, 2022 )- Follow up
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- On Wednesday, Travis County District Judge Amy Clark Meachum granted a temporary restraining order that will prevent Republican Governor Greg Abbott from using the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to conduct “child abuse” investigations against parents who provide gender-affirming medical care to their trans kids.
(LGBTQ Nation, US, March 3, 2022 )
- On Wednesday, Travis County District Judge Amy Clark Meachum granted a temporary restraining order that will prevent Republican Governor Greg Abbott from using the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to conduct “child abuse” investigations against parents who provide gender-affirming medical care to their trans kids.
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- A bill to put supportive parents of trans kids in jail failed. Now the Republican governor and attorney general are trying to declare them child abusers themselves.
- The Pennridge School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania recently announced it will remove all books on gender identity from its elementary school libraries.
(Molly Sprayregen, LGBTQ Nation, US, December 27, 2021 )
- The Pennridge School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania recently announced it will remove all books on gender identity from its elementary school libraries.
- Katee Churchill, from Michigan’s small, rural Clare County, told New York Magazine that the first sign that Finn, whose name has been changed, wanted to explore his gender came in 2014 when he was three years old.
(Lily Wakefield, PinkNews, UK, December 17, 2021 )
- Katee Churchill, from Michigan’s small, rural Clare County, told New York Magazine that the first sign that Finn, whose name has been changed, wanted to explore his gender came in 2014 when he was three years old.
- A group of parents in Wisconsin, US, have filed a lawsuit against their children’s school over a policy that allows students to go by their chosen name and pronouns without telling their parents.
(Vic Parsons, Pink News, US, November 23, 2021 )
- A group of parents in Wisconsin, US, have filed a lawsuit against their children’s school over a policy that allows students to go by their chosen name and pronouns without telling their parents.
