LGBTQ PROTECTIONS

Biden signs order to protect transgender children as Texas continues efforts to restrict gender-affirming care

The executive order calls on the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services to increase access to gender-affirming health care and develop ways to counter state efforts aimed at limiting such treatments for transgender minors.

By Eric Neugeboren, The Texas Tribune
Posted 6/15/22

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to enhance protections for transgender children and take steps to ban conversion therapy as efforts continue in Texas ...

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