Arkansas became on Tuesday the first state in the country to ban medical treatments for transgender minors.
The state s mostly Republican legislature voted to override Gov. Asa Hutchinson s veto of House Bill 1570, which limits access to certain treatments for youth younger than 18 years old. The new law prohibits doctors from providing gender confirming hormone therapy, puberty blockers or gender-confirmation surgeries or from referring patients to other health care providers.
On Monday, Republican lawmakers in North Carolina introduced Senate Bill 514, which would prevent medical professionals from providing practices and health care services to transgender youth younger than 21 years old. It also defines the sex of a person as genetically encoded into a person at the moment of conception, and it cannot be changed.
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Monday overturned President Donald Trump s policy that aimed to ban transgender troops from service.
Biden directed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to implement a policy that prohibits discrimination against troops based on their gender identity and requires the Pentagon to report within 60 days its progress in unraveling the ban.
Biden said the move makes the nation safer. Today, I repealed the discriminatory ban on transgender people serving in the military, Biden said in a tweet. It’s simple: America is safer when everyone qualified to serve can do so openly and with pride.
The directive to reverse the previous administration s policy is one of Biden s first moves to unravel Trump s legacy in the military and elsewhere in government.