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The thousand-yard stare is rapidly afflicting .$'$*&*3-2"!**./ many members of the transgender community The bill passed in Arkansas, and bills under in the United States these days, especially trans consideration in Louisiana, Montana, North !"#$%&'()&$%*+,&-',*($./ Carolina, and Tennessee, would allow individuals That phrase, often used to describe the blank, to file civil suits for damages against medical unfocused gaze of combatants who have become providers who violate these laws. emotionally detached from the horrors around Bills in Arkansas and Montana provide them, sadly fits most trans people. mechanisms for the state Attorneys General to It is a war without bullets, bombs and artillery file suit against medical providers to enforce shells, but it is a war nonetheless being waged compliance. against a fractional percentage minority in 0I can’t see not being able to transition; I mean America ironically by another minority, only one having to live with non-support?” Richie said. 04& that is well funded and politically powerful backed can tell you that if I had not had the support of my by religious zealots and extremists. parents and well, if I hadn’t been able to transition, Fear, anger, outrage, and exasperation are I may not even be here, nothing is more terrifying now the experiences daily for trans Americans for a trans kid than being out and not able to of every age as they confront what has been transition,” he added. a virtual tsunami of legislative actions in 25 In the case of Texas, Richie says he is states specifically targeting their existence, as aggravated by the fact that lawmakers aren’t Republican lawmakers work to limit medical care, listening to experts, counselors, and even trans participation in sports, or limit their being able to youth who have been testifying in front of both #$%&'%()*+,*-!789:;<=>!:?!?@9!A9B:7!.?:?9!5:8<?CD!2E<DF<=>!FEG<=>!:!G:DDH!ICG!'02AJ!G<>@?74 self determine their own gender identity.

Representatives and Senators in the various K$@C?C!LCEG?97H!':=FC=!%<L@<9!M<:!N:L9OCC;P In a published commentary this week, an 18 committees. 0They don’t care, they listen to some year-old trans male from Virginia pointed out: 0A lot of anti- trans bills targeting people like bogus groups like the American College of Pediatricians which isn’t credible,” he angrily me passed recently and more are being proposed. Republicans have decided that the most .$'$*)/ important thing to do in the middle of a pandemic is to take away life-saving treatment from The ACP is a small group of physicians that left the The American Academy of Pediatrics children and ban them from playing sports,” Eric&1'((*%+22&.'+)/ after the AAP released a 2002 policy statement explaining that gay parents pose no risk to 0This has been painful for me. It’s like watching a murder in slow motion. I see what adopted children. The Southern Poverty Law Center has repeatedly labeled the ACP as an they’re doing and recognize that it’s going to get people killed and there’s nothing I can do anti-LGBT hate group that promotes false claims and misleading scientific reports. but just watch as they target kids like me with a smile on their face and a Bible in hand,” 0Texas will be uninhabitable for trans kids if they pass all these bad bills,” he said. %*&'))*)/ Medical experts agree that should this legislative tsunami pass into law, the mental health The soft voice on the phone is weary and filled with mixed tones of anger and disgust but toll of gender dysphoria and social marginalization will produce spikes in youth suicides and '2."&'--,*%*(.+"(/&0There’s so many of these bills,” 18 year-old Landon Richie tells the Blade. other psychological trauma.

Richie, a high school senior in the metropolitan Houston area has been invested in the fight In an interview with The Texas Tribune, Marjan Linnell, a general pediatrician explained for trans rights in Texas since he first came out as an young child. that puberty suppression treatment has been used for decades to prevent children from 0I’ve been very lucky to have had my parents’ support especially with my medical care. going through puberty too soon. Once those children reach an appropriate age, their I’m on hormones, I had ‘top’ surgery — but if they pass both House Bill 1399 and Senate Bill treatment stops and natural puberty occurs. Linnell said the same is true for transgender 1311 I have a younger sibling who identifies as non-binary and they would be blocked from children, for whom puberty can often exacerbate poor mental health. receiving medical care,” he said. 0We don’t know what we are going to do. I mean there are 0The point is to have a reversible treatment that can give them some time,” she said. 01%'$& other families who are talking about moving away [from Texas].” not only helps to gain some time to make sure we’re making an appropriate and best practice HB 1399 prohibits health care providers and physicians from performing gender medical decision for these kids and families, but we also know it can be incredibly important confirmation surgery or prescribing, administering or supplying puberty blockers or for preserving the mental health of our kids that are going through gender affirming care.” hormone treatment to anyone under the age of 18. SB1311 would revoke the medical In Orange County California, the mother of an 11-and-a-half-year-old trans daughter, who license of health care providers and physicians who perform such procedures or prescribe asked to not be identified, relayed in a phone call to the Blade that the impact on trans youth such drugs or hormones to people younger than 18. even in affirming states like California is horrific.

As these bills work their way through the Texas statehouse, the ACLU reports that in 14 0She asked me if she was going to be safe. Like most kids who follow the news she other states, lawmakers are also pushing laws that bans or severely restrictions on transition panicked; kids think globally she has friends in Texas, she thought ‘the government’ would care for trans youth under 18. take away her rights,” the mother said.

The Williams Institute at the University of California School of Law warns that 45,100 trans NBC reported Monday that George and Emily Spurrier are leaving their home of 16 years youth are at risk of loss of gender-affirming medical care. in central Arkansas due to a new law that will ban the health care that they say their 17-yearMost of these bills propose to make it a crime or a cause for professional discipline for old transgender son needs. medical providers to deliver gender-affirming care to minors. Bills in Louisiana, Missouri, Emily Spurrier said when her son heard the news, he sat in her car and cried for an hour.

North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas also include penalties for parents who 0It was just kind of a wave of emotions, thinking about moving and then him worrying encourage or facilitate minors’ access to gender-affirming medical care. about some friends that he has here in the Little Rock area,” she said. 05()&$%*(&6#.$&$%*& In three other states—Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina—school employees would thought that this is really the only place he ever remembers living.” be prohibited from withholding information about a child being transgender from that Richie tells the Blade that worst part of this entire mess is being targeted by Republicans child’s parents, while a similar requirement proposed in North Carolina would apply to all for what he sees as an immutable part of his existence as a human being. !"!"!#$%&'!()*!(+(,!"!'-.#/01'1.2'#3145-6

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The nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders, Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Los Angeles, (AAAJ-LA) noted that there the 15 anti-Asian hate crimes reported in 2020 as compared with seven in 2019, marks a 114% increase.

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Lead Investigator Ansley B. Lemons!D1C( L6;C( *1)( B.55&*I:&2( ,-./( +0&( #3#M2( %*+4.1*5( #&1+&-( ,.-( ;<=N$<3?C( =4-*5( Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control in Atlanta, GA, USA, used data from the Medical Monitoring Project, *1( *11:*5( 2:-7&D( :2&)( +.( A-.):B&( 1*+4.1*5( &2+4/*+&2( .,( 2.B4.)&/.I-*A04BC( behavioral, and clinical characteristics of adults diagnosed with HIV. $1*5D2+2(&2+4/*+&)(+0&(A-&7*5&1B&(.,(-&2A.1)&1+2('0.(0*)(&7&-(&@A&-4&1B&)( <6=(*1)(+0.2&('0.(&@A&-4&1B&)(<6=('4+041(+0&(5*2+(FG(/.1+02(*1)(B./A*-&)(+0*+( '4+0(2.B4.)&/.I-*A04B(41,.-/*+4.1C(J&0*74.-*5(B0*-*B+&-42+4B2C(B5414B*5(.:+B./&2C( and the use of emergency or inpatient medical services in the past year.

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women, 28.9 percent of transgender people, and 23.2 percent of men had experienced IPV. There were also significant differences based on gender and sexual identity. $5+0.:I0( './&1( .7&-*55( &@A&-4&1B&)( +0&( 04I0&2+( A-&7*5&1B&( .,( <6=C( J42&@:*5( women experienced the highest proportion (51.5 percent) compared with all gender and sexual identity groups.

Overall, 4.4 percent of people with HIV had experienced IPV in the last 12 months. Statistically significant differences were found by sociodemographic B0*-*B+&-42+4B2C(2:B0(*2(*I&(*1)(I&1)&-N2&@:*5(4)&1+4,D(J:+(1.+(JD(-*B&N&+014B4+D( or gender identity.

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Wilde Artist award,” Parton relayed in statement Boseman was !/73-+ %(+ 8(31.&85'.+ -7$%()+ via her publicist. !HI$+(#,+/71.+HI$+%/+.&6=+%/+0%/,+ scholar, humanitarian, and a really wonderful winners (in the Wilde Artist category) like Todd %3,#1)*+/%8&+!;%+<%8(.=” costar Colman Domingo, Haynes, Kate McKinnon, Lin-Manuel Miranda and %33.0,8(6+ :8%+ %+ 1.3#1&.&+ :8&.#+ #(+ 5.-%'2+ #2+ Jordan Peele—but I am honored and humbled. I Boseman and his family. !?1.%,8(6+3#$0'.D+1#'./+ %001.38%,.+ %''+ #2+ =#7+ .(,.1,%8($.(,+ J#71(%'8/,/+ %5#7,+ ,-.+ 92183%(49$.183%(+ .D0.18.(3.)+ %(&+ who are so passionate and are working so hard. about people who are marginalized in society and Keep up the good work!” trying to stand up and have a strong voice, fighting >%1,#(I/+ 3.'.51%,.&+ 218.(&)+ /.0,7%6.(%18%(+ for representation—that is Chadwick Boseman’s actor and social media superstar Leslie Jordan, legacy.” currently on screens in “The United States vs. !>1#$8/8(6+B#7(6+E#$%(*+/,%1+?%1.=+;7''86%()+ F8''8.+ S#'8&%=*G%(#,-.1+ 2%3,45%/.&+ &1%$%+ %5#7,+ fascinatingly mischievous as a woman out to the fight against racism—was named the group’s %:.(6.+ ,-.+ &.%,-+ #2+ %+ 2.$%'.+ 218.(&)+ %(&+ ,-.+ latest Timeless Star, a career achievement mystery’s witty screenwriter, Emerald Fennell, accolade previously awarded to the likes of Sir both delighted with their humble acceptance Ian McKellen, Jane Fonda, George Takei, John :8&.#/+ 2#1+ F./,+ A8'$+ >.12#1$%(3.G93,1.//+ %(&+ Waters, Lily Tomlin, Betty White and Dame Angela Best Screenplay, respectively. !HI$+ J7/,+ /#+ -%00=+ Lansbury. ,-%,+KE#$%(L+-%/+1./#(%,.&)+%(&+HI$+/#+61%,.27'+ >%=8(6+,1857,.+,#+C#1&%(+8(+:8&.#+2#1$+%-.%&+#2+%+ ,#+KA.((.''L+2#1+8(:8,8(6+$.+%'#(6+2#1+,-.+18&.)*+/%8&+ segment featuring the star himself: Billie Holiday’s Mulligan. Fennell, meanwhile, graciously spoke of director Lee Daniels, Cheyenne Jackson (Jordan’s -.1+!%&$81%,8#(+2#1+KGALECA’s] members.”

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