Amie Ichikawa, an activist and former inmate, warned of the harmful impacts of allowing male inmates to identify as transgender women and be housed in female prisons.
Some Republican lawmakers in West Virginia want to ban transgender youth at risk for self-harm or suicide from accessing medical interventions such as hormone therapy. The GOP-controlled Legislature banned such interventions last year while allowing the self-harm and suicide exception. Now, a group of lawmakers want to eliminate that narrow definition, which requires parental consent and a diagnosis of severe gender dysphoria from two medical professionals, both of whom must provide written testimony that medical interventions are necessary to prevent or limit possible or actual self-harm.
While speaking at George Washington University about how Americans can “disagree better,” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox described gender-affirming care for transgender youth as “genital mutilation surgeries.”