by R. Kelly Sheridan In the past three years, 23 states have passed legislation that prohibits physicians and other health care providers from providing gender affirming health care to transgender minors. These laws constitute an extreme, unprecedented attack on transgender ...
The Legislative Graveyard Welcome to the Legislative Graveyard, where bills that did not become law come to rest –— though rarely in peace. The vast majority of bills we followed this session died, for better or worse. We can’t list them all, but we’ll give you the highlights. Each ...
Good: HB 5516 — “prohibiting the use of deep fake images for the nonconsensual disclosure of private intimate images; prohibiting the unlawful depiction of nude or partially nude minors or minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.” Similar to the bills on child porn, this one ...
An Oklahoma teenager died earlier this month after being beaten up during a fight with some older girls in a school bathroom. The school failed to call an ambulance or police despite the fact the 16-year-old had been struck in the head, leaving them with bruises and scratches on their head ...
The news can leave you depressed and politics can send your blood pressure through the roof — which is why most people tune out both. (If you’re reading this, you’re probably an exception.) We can rarely avoid the endless campaign ads on TV and radio, so every election season, we get ...
Good: HB 4223 — “that the Division of Corrections provide each probationer with physical copies of their birth certificate and Social Security Administration card upon release from a facility.” Both of these documents are essential to securing financial accounts, housing and ...