Flurry of bills aim to set limits on transgender kids – and their doctors
Sam Edelman felt like a girl for as long as he could remember, his dad said. As Sam s 18th birthday approached, and after years of researching hormone treatments, the high school senior scheduled an appointment with a doctor who treats transgender people.
It was a big step for Sam, a musician, a runner, a snowboarder and a taekwondo black belt who still identified as a boy at that point and had shared his secret only with his family and closest confidants.
The doctor said Sam was too young and thought it unlikely that any doctor would treat the Bozeman, Montana, teen for the same reason. Ten months later, on Feb. 20, 2016, Sam died by suicide.
Construction of business hub in Cobargo gives artisan business new hope 12 months after bushfires
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Laura Haynes and her family at the Candelo markets selling their latest giftware.
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Cobargo small business owner Laura Haynes is celebrating the first arrival of artisan giftware from South-East Asia, after her boutique business was destroyed in last summer s bushfires and COVID-19 put a halt to international travel.
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There are plans for a new business hub after land was donated by Cobargo Co-op
Business Councils of Australia BizRebuild program will lead the $500,000 project
Ms Haynes purchased the giftware store in 2019, driven by her passion of creating a fair-trade, ethical business that supported artisans around the world.
well, there may be. the high watermark of putin s efforts to meddle in democracies in the west may have been electing trump. the problem is he picked the wrong guy to back. and it may be that the backlash against the possibility of trump-like leaders across europe has actually brought europe closer together. putin wanted to undermine that. what you ve got now is absolutely no chance that europe is going to come apart in the near term. and in fact you ve got the fact of a more united europe as a counterbalance to both putin and to trump, who has been pretty lukewarm on the relationship with europe. laura, what was it like inside the campaign when you discovered you were being hacked? it was absolutely terrible, because by the french law, all campaigns have to stop working friday at midnight until the result. and it was 11:45 last friday. we discovered before basically
he congratulated the french president-elect on his win and planned to meet with him at a nato meeting in brussels later this month. joining us now is david rothkopf, the author of the new book the great questions of tomorrow. and returning to raszewski laz, laura haynes, she is spokesperson for emmanuel macron, the president-elect of france. laura, thank you very much for joining us tonight. you went from being a reporter covering our presidential election here in the united states to now working on one in france. and just quickly, did you tell us, did president obama call mr. macron today? did they make contact today? yes, absolutely they made contact today. and you know maybe that the was in washington and had a meeting with president obama. and when he was in office
decided to call president-elect emmanuel macron. and laura, how would you compare, since you covered the trump presidential campaign? you covered our last presidential campaign here. how would you compare these two campaigns, needless to say, many people here thinking that the way donald trump has performed as president was part of what scared france about possibly voting for le pen. you know, we believe at emmanuel macron s party that there is an anxiety of the middle class. the middle class all over the world doesn t know how to think anymore. they re tempted by populism, which we saw in the united states, was quite similar to what happened in france. again, this anxiety of the middle class. so emmanuel macron s thought that it was really good to rise ideas, to rise substance, and to make sure people understand that