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Gov. Stitt axes PBS funding over shows with LGBT+ content
Source: KTUL ABC Tulsa
Governor Kevin Stitt receives questions after denying OETA funding.

“OETA is the most-watched PBS station in the country,” Friends of OETA board member Ken Busby asserted. “Over 650,000 viewers a week are watching PBS in Oklahoma.”

Those impressive numbers haven’t fazed Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, who said the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority should lose its funding because its programming features the LGBT+ community.

H.B. 2820 was one of more than 20 bills vetoed by the governor late Wednesday evening. It would have secured OETA’s funding through 2026 if signed into law.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... b27a2&ei=9
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Montana trans lawmaker Zooey Zephyr sues state over censure
Source: ABC News
Montana state legislator Zooey Zephyr is suing the state, House Speaker Matt Regier and Sergeant at Arms for the Montana House of Representatives Bradley Murfitt after being censured by House Republicans.

"The recent actions violate my 1st amendment rights, as well as the rights of my 11,000 constituents to representation," Zephyr said in a tweet Monday. "Montana's State House is the people's House, not Speaker Regier's, and I'm determined to defend the right of the people to have their voices heard."

Zephyr is petitioning for her legislative privileges and duties to be reinstated. Zephyr's calls to vote against a gender-affirming care ban for transgender youth on bill SB99 were ignored for days by Republican leaders on the House floor in April.

Some legislators, including Regier, argued she had broken House rules of decorum when she said legislators would have "blood on your hands" if they passed the transgender youth care ban.
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Judge blocks Missouri rule that would limit transgender care

A Missouri judge has blocked a unique rule that would restrict access to gender-affirming health care to children and adults
https://www.komu.com/news/state/judge-b ... 77a15.html
By SUMMER BALLENTINE - Associated Press May 1, 2023 Updated 2 hrs ago
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Monday temporarily blocked a unique rule that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill several other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery.

St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Ribaudo issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule until May 15 unless she extends it. She also scheduled a May 11 hearing over the lawsuit challenging the rule.

In her ruling, Ribaudo wrote that those suing to block the ruling would “be subjected to immediate and irreparable loss, damage or injury if the Attorney General is permitted to enforce the Emergency Rule, and its broad, sweeping provisions were implemented without further fact-finding or evidence.”
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Awesome news!!! Onto the Senate!

Oregon House passes controversial reproductive rights bill after GOP delays, long debate
https://nbc16.com/news/local/oregon-hou ... ights-bill
by Christina Giardinelli and KATU StaffMon, May 1st 2023, 5:33 PM PDT
The Oregon House passed a controversial reproductive rights bill Monday after Republicans tried to delay the vote and a long and at times emotional debate.

House Bill 2002 passed 36-23 shortly after 7 p.m. The session convened at 9 a.m.

The bill expands access to abortion regardless of age and without the need for parental consent, which has been one of the biggest points of contention.

It also requires insurance companies to cover gender-affirming care

Oregon House passes sweeping bill to guarantee access to abortion, gender-affirming care

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023 ... ming-care/
The bill stands in opposition to legislation in Republican-led states blocking access and criminalizing care
By: Julia Shumway - May 1, 2023 7:19 pm

Democrats in the Oregon House passed a sweeping bill intended to guarantee access to abortion and gender-affirming care Monday evening after a grueling day of debate and parliamentary motions from Republicans who adamantly oppose the measure.

House Bill 2002, a top priority for Democrats in the legislative majority, represents the state’s response to last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and ending the national right to abortion. Abortion remains legal in Oregon and must be provided at no cost to the patient because of a 2017 law.

But legislators and others who met in private last summer feared that laws in other states criminalizing abortion would affect Oregon providers. The 46-page bill that resulted focuses on protecting gender-affirming care as well as reproductive rights, both personal medical decisions under attack in Republican-led states.

“A series of basic rights in our country came into question that had decades of precedent behind them,” said Rep. Rob Nosse, D-Portland, as he introduced the measure.

Nosse decried criticism from Republicans, who have focused on tales of young girls obtaining abortions and the regret or medical complications experienced by some people who obtain abortions or gender-affirming care, as “misleading and provocative.” House Speaker Dan Rayfield, a Corvallis Democrat, repeatedly urged Republicans to mind their language and stick to talking about the bill’s provisions. The Oregon measure would protect doctors and other health care providers from losing their licenses or facing other repercussions for providing abortions or gender-affirming care, and it would bar state courts from issuing subpoenas or otherwise helping other states prosecute people who provided care that complies with Oregon laws.

It also would require the state’s Medicaid program and private insurers to cover a range of reproductive and gender-related services, including laser hair removal, tracheal shaves and facial feminization surgery for transgender women
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Challenge to Kentucky's anti-trans law filed in federal court
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, the National Center for Lesbian Rights and law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius are suing to block part of a law they’ve called the worst anti-trans bill in the United States.

This suit comes more than a month after the legislature passed controversial Senate Bill 150, which bans gender-affirming care for minors, allows teachers to misgender trans kids, regulates which bathrooms kids can use and limits the sex education students can receive.

“Under the Constitution, trans youth in Kentucky have the right to medically necessary care,” Corey Shapiro, ACLU of Kentucky’s legal director, said.

The lawsuit, he said, is “to protect against this imminent threat to their well-being and make certain they can thrive by continuing to receive medical care.”

https://kentuckylantern.com/2023/05/03/ ... ral-court/
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Wes Moore signs transgender rights law

Trans Health Equity Act will require Medicaid to cover gender-affirming treatment
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/05 ... ights-law/
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on May 3, 2023
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Wednesday signed a bill that requires the state’s Medicaid program to cover gender-affirming treatment.

The Trans Health Equity Act is one of the more than 100 measures that Moore signed during a ceremony that took place at the State Capitol. Some of the other bills the governor signed focused on reproductive rights and marijuana.

“Another successful bill signing from (Gov. Wes Moore), (Lieutenant Gov. Aruna Miller), (Senate President Bill Ferguson) and (House Speaker Adrienne Jones),” tweeted state Sen. Mary Washington (D-Baltimore City), who introduced the Trans Health Equity Act in the Maryland Senate. “Today, the Trans Health Equity Act (SB460) was signed into law, protecting the rights of trans Marylanders and offering them equal opportunities.”
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Judge Extends Suspension of Missouri AG's Transgender Rule
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states ... ender-rule
A judge has extended her order barring enforcement of a unique rule pushed by Missouri’s Republican attorney general that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery
By Associated Press
David A. Lieb
A judge has extended her order barring enforcement of a unique rule pushed by Missouri's Republican attorney general that would require adults and children to undergo more than a year of therapy and fulfill other requirements before they could receive gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgery.

Attorney General Andrew Bailey initially sought to implement the rule effective April 27, prompting a lawsuit on behalf of transgender people. St. Louis County Judge Ellen Ribaudo on Monday granted a temporary restraining order and originally scheduled a May 11 hearing on the lawsuit.

A posting Thursday on Missouri's online court system shows that Ribaudo pushed back the hearing to July 20, following a joint request from both sides. The posting said the order will remain in effect until July 24 or until the judge rules on whether to grant a preliminary injunction.
A spokeswoman for Bailey confirmed the date change, saying the July hearing date was the one that worked best for all parties in the case.
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