Ohio’s Health Department on Wednesday said it was striking a number of provisions that would have limited access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender adults in the state from a set of proposed administrative rules, citing a deluge of public comments opposing the restrictions. “The Department is grateful to those individuals and organizations who took…
Transgender people face an uncertain future in Ohio under a new law banning gender-affirming health care for minors and administrative rules that heavily restrict access to care for adults. The state’s GOP-controlled Legislature on Wednesday overrode Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of House Bill 68, allowing a ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors…
Commerce Department officials described the proposed changes to advocacy groups and others last week, telling them that the U.S. State Department would have more influence over vetting exports to countries with poor human-rights records, the Bloomberg report said, citing people who were briefed. Under the draft rules, officials would create distinct trade categories for semiautomatic firearms - including pistols, rifles and shotguns, making it easier for federal regulators to scrutinize exports of those weapons, Bloomberg said.
Beijing has quietly pulled the proposed curbs on the video game industry from the official website, weeks after the draft guidelines wiped tens of billions of dollars off the market value of local titans. The link to the draft rules was no longer accessible as of this morning, as first reported by Reuters. The move follows Beijing also removing a key official – the head of the publication bureau of Communist Party's Propaganda Department – over the handling of the release of the draft rules, which caught investors and gaming giants by surprise.