April 10, 2021
By Lawrence Banton
The Republican-led Arkansas state legislature officially banned gender-affirming treatment for transgender youth this week, even after fellow Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed the measure.
Hutchinson told Cheddar he tried to stop the ban, as written, because of its broad language and failure to grandfather in patients already receiving hormonal treatment. In this case I think it is a government overreach, he said. âI wouldâve signed a more limited bill that simply restricted reassignment surgery under 18. Thatâs something that we donât do in Arkansas. Medical professionals donât recommend that, obviously, and I would have signed that limitation, but this was overbroad, it was extreme and I vetoed it and Iâm sorry for the young people that are adversely impacted by it,â Hutchinson told Cheddar.
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Bill advances to ban use of ‘1619 Project’ in Iowa schools
Skyler Wheeler
Republicans on an Iowa House subcommittee have advanced a bill that would pull state funding from public schools if a
New York Times series about slavery is used in history classes.
Representative Skyler Wheeler, a Republican from Orange City who is the bill’s sponsor, said the 1619 Project is projecting “a clear viewpoint.”
“It seeks to distort facts, not simply teach them and it does so as leftist political propaganda masquerading as history,” Wheeler said.
Rita Davenport, who spoke at a statehouse subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, said the 1619 project promotes Black “victimhood.”