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Montana judge temporarily blocks enforcement of law to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana law banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors is temporarily blocked, a state judge ruled Wednesday, just four days before it was to take effect. Legislative debate over Montana’s bill drew national attention this spring after...
Missouri says clinic that challenged transgender treatment restrictions didn't provide proper care
Missouri officials struck back at one of the clinics that unsuccessfully challenged new state restrictions on gender affirming care, accusing the clinic in a lawsuit of failing to provide proper care for transgender minors even before the new law took effect. Missouri's Republican...
Judge sides with ACLU, orders Albuquerque to pause removal of homeless people's belongings
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The city of Albuquerque will be banned under a court order from seizing or destroying property of people who are homeless. A Bernalillo County District Court judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday that Albuquerque will have to follow starting Nov....
LGBTQ pride group excluded from southwest Iowa town's Labor Day parade
A local LGBTQ pride group was excluded from a southwest Iowa town's Labor Day parade, apparently by the city's mayor, who cited safety concerns. Shenandoah Pride planned to have a small group walking with a banner and a drag performer riding in a convertible, with candy, popsicles...
ACLU sues Tennessee district attorney who promises to enforce the state's new anti-drag show ban
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee's first-in-the-nation law placing strict limits on drag shows is once again facing a legal challenge after a local district attorney warned Pride organizers that he intends to enforce the new statute despite a federal judge ruling the ban was unconstitutional. ...
ACLU sues over Indiana law blocking gender-affirming surgery for inmates
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Civil rights advocates are suing Indiana's Department of Corrections over the state's law prohibiting gender-affirming surgery for inmates. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit against the department in federal court in Evansville on Monday. ...
Rulings in Texas, Missouri jumble again where US transgender youth can receive treatment
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A judge on Friday ruled against Texas' ban on gender-affirming health care for minors while a separate judge in Missouri let a similar ban take effect, jumbling again where in the U.S. transgender youth can receive treatment. The conflicting decisions, handed...
Maine's highest court rules against agency that withheld public records
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's highest court has affirmed a lower court's ruling that a public agency in the state acted in bad faith when it withheld records from a nonprofit group. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday that the Maine County Commissioners’ Association...
Kansas judge allows ACLU to intervene in lawsuit over gender markers on driver's licenses
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge has agreed to allow the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit that seeks to force the state to list the sex that people were assigned at birth on their driver’s licenses. Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a...
Federal appeals court upholds block of Idaho transgender athletes law
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a decision blocking Idaho's first-in-the-nation ban on transgender athletes in girls and women's sports. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judge's preliminary injunction against the 2020 law, which would...
