Andrew Demillo April 06, 2021 - 12:37 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor s objections.
The Republican-controlled House and Senate voted to override GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson s veto of the measure, which prohibits doctors from providing gender confirming hormone treatment, puberty blockers or surgery to anyone under 18 years old, or from referring them to other providers for the treatment.
Opponents of the measure have vowed to sue to block the ban before it takes effect this summer.
Hutchinson vetoed the bill following pleas from pediatricians, social workers and the parents of transgender youth who said the measure would harm a community already at risk for depression and suicide.
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Corporations gave over $50M to voting restriction backers
Apr. 06, 2021 at 6:00 am
BRIAN SLODYSKO, Associated Press
When executives from Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines spoke out against Georgia’s new voting law as unduly restrictive last week, it seemed to signal a new activism springing from corporate America.
But if leaders of the nation’s most prominent companies are going to reject lawmakers who support restrictive voting measures, they will have to abruptly reverse course.
State legislators across the country who have pushed for new voting restrictions, and also seized on former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud, have reaped more than $50 million in corporate donations in recent years, according to a new report by Public Citizen, a Washington-based government watchdog group.
New Hampshire lawmakers seek to blunt presidential orders on firearms by Christian Wade, The Center Square contributor | April 06, 2021 10:00 AM Print this article
New Hampshire Republican lawmakers are advancing a plan to blunt the impact of any executive orders by President Joe Biden tightening firearm regulations following a recent spate of mass shootings.
Senate Bill 154, Which was approved by the state Senate last Thursday, would prohibit the state from enforcing any presidential executive order restricting, limiting, encumbering, regulating, or placing conditions upon the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
The measure passed 14-10 in a vote that went along party lines, with Democrats against it.