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The new EO includes the just treatment of all people to ensure that they are fully protected from disproportionate and adverse human health and environmental effects (including risks) and hazards related to climate change, impacts of environmental burdens, and racism

Naija Times Diaspora Conversations was launched in April 2021 to engage Nigerians in the Diaspora.

Three incumbents on the Newberg school board lost their seats in Tuesday’s election, the end of an era in a district that’s attracted national attention since 2021.

Oregon school board elections this year have drawn competition between candidates, attention from statewide groups, and money from political action committees as school boards have increasingly become a space where state policies and support for some of the state’s most marginalized students come into question.

A state-imposed social media blackout during massive protests around Imran Khan's arrest backfires, fueling momentum for him.

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The procedures are currently considered cosmetic by insurers but seen as critical to the mental health of transitioning women. The wide-ranging bill is part of a wave of legislation in Democratic-controlled states intended to carve out safe havens for transgender people amid a conservative movement seeking to ban or limit gender-affirming care.

For most of her life, Christina Wood felt like she had to hide her identity as a transgender woman. Six years ago she moved to Oregon, where she had readier access to the gender-affirming health care she needed to live as her authentic self.

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Democratic lawmakers in Oregon are advancing a bill that would expand insurance coverage for gender-affirming care to include things like facial hair removal and Adam’s apple reduction surgery.