Poll: Who will win tonight’s GOP debate?
By Randy Shulman
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August 5, 2015
Here’s what you all thought prior to yesterday’s debates:
An Ohio law prohibiting transgender youth from accessing gender-affirming care has been declared unconstitutional by a state appeals court. The court has permanently blocked officials from enforcing the ban.
On March 18, a three-judge panel of the state's 10th District Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's ruling that allowed the state to enforce the ban, reported NBC News.
The ban on gender-affirming care -- which passed along with a ban on transgender women and girls from participating on female-designated sports teams -- was passed in late 2023 but was later vetoed by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.
A federal judge blocked Texas A&M University from banning a drag show from being held on any of the university's 11 campuses. The temporary preliminary injunction was issued on March 24 by Judge Lee Rosenthal of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
As a result, "Draggieland," a student-produced drag event, will go on as planned at the Rudder Theatre on the university's College Station campus this Thursday, March 27.
The pageant -- which has sold out the 750-seat Rudder Theatre every year since 2020 -- features contestants who wear clothing or makeup that often, but does not always, run counter to their gender identity. The contestants also dance and answer questions about what drag and LGBTQ culture means to them.
A proposed bill in Arkansas would criminalize anyone who is believed to have supported the social transition of transgender youth.
The bill's prohibitions are so broad, in fact, that it could lead to the prosecution of hairdressers who give youth haircuts that don't conform to stereotypical gender norms.
Under the Vulnerable Youth Protection Act, any person found to have affirmed the gender identity of a minor that does not match the minor's assigned sex at birth could be sued by that minor or their parents for at least $10,000, plus compensatory damages and attorney's fees, for up to 20 years afterward.
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