Neither the girl nor her parents were told of the investigation, begun when parents of two students who had lost to the girl in competition complained.
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Boston Children’s Hospital receiving threats over transgender care program
Informational YouTube videos became the focus of far-right social media accounts.
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Pope Francis meets transgender guests of Rome church
The Blessed Immaculate Virgin community in the Torvaianica neighborhood on Rome’s outskirts opened its doors to transgender people during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Alabama uses abortion ruling to argue for ban on medical care for transgender youth
Alabama is using the U.S. Supreme Court decision on abortion to argue that the state should also be able to ban gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender youth.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics, Schools and Education
Maine policy supports incorporating LGBTQ lessons, but lacking guidance, most schools aren’t doing it
The state encourages but does not require or give specific instruction for teaching about sexual orientation and gender diversity, topics many experts believe should be addressed at an early age.
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Indiana lawmakers enact transgender sports ban with veto override
Gov. Eric Holcomb says he stands by his decision to veto because the bill suggests ‘there is an existing problem in K-12 sports’ but he found no evidence of the claims.
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Texas court allows parents of transgender youths to be investigated for child abuse
The Texas Supreme Court ruling is mixed, as it found in favor of 1 family but says lower courts were wrong to block all cases.
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Maine Voices: We are oppressing one another in this country, and it needs to stop
If a lack of unity, tolerance and love persists in the United States, then we are no longer united; therefore, the basis for our country no longer exists.
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Maine Republicans adopt platform to ban sexually based material, transgender identity in schools
The Maine Republican Party kicked off its two-day convention in Augusta by also rejecting an effort to remove the party’s one woman-one man definition of marriage.
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Biden marks Transgender Day of Visibility with new actions to make government more inclusive
Biden is announcing new measures aimed at making the federal government more inclusive for transgender people, including an ‘X’ gender marker on U.S. passport applications and new TSA scanners that are gender-neutral.