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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) â Healthcare workers and transgender advocates took to the Arkansas State Capitol Saturday to protest against HB1570. The Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act would ban gender transition procedures for Arkansans under the age of 18, including prescribing drugs.
Now that the Arkansas house and senate have passed the bill, transgender nursing student Carmen Angelica Gresham is nervous it could harm people like her.
âIâm a lot happier with my body. Iâm a lot happier with how Iâm treated and Iâm a lot more comfortable in my life,â Gresham said.
The UAMS student said she wasnât always comfortable with the body she was born with.
The new rules also prohibit discrimination based on gender identity.
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WASHINGTON: The Pentagon on Wednesday swept away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military, issuing new rules that offer them wider access to medical care and assistance with gender transition.
The new department regulations allow transgender people who meet military standards to enlist and serve openly in their self-identified gender, and they will be able to get medically necessary transition-related care authorized by law, chief Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters during a briefing.
The changes come after a two-month Pentagon review aimed at developing guidelines for the new policy, which was announced by President Joe Biden just days after he took office in January.
Chicago trans community celebrates reversal of military ban
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CHICAGO (WLS) Tatyana Moaton served as an intelligence analyst in the military for 8 years. She s celebrating President Biden s executive order reversing the ban on transgender military personnel. Trans people are people and they are willing and ready to serve this country and fight and die as they have done, said Moaton, who is a transgender woman.
The controversial ban was announced by former President Trump in 2017 through a tweet. It reversed an Obama administration policy that allowed open service by transgender people. Thousands of people have been serving in the military successfully. So it s just so wonderful that they have this cloud taken away from them and they can serve openly without worrying, said John Knight, LGBTQ & HIV Project Director for the ACLU of Illinois.