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'Children will die': Transgender advocates warn about risks as more states consider banning gender-affirming care for kids Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT Willow Breshears knew she was different for as long as she can remember. Growing up in rural Arkansas, she said she often felt depressed her personal discoveries about herself quashed by social norms and Baptist teachings. Now 18 and living in Little Rock, the transgender activist recently testified before lawmakers as part of an effort to try to stop the passage of a proposed state law that, among other thi...

on March 1, 2021 at 8:37 am Last week, the Utah House of Representatives reviewed HB0092, a bill sponsored by Representative Rex Shipp that would ban Utah doctors from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender youth. This bill is currently co-sponsored by Cache Valley Representative Mike Petersen and, if enacted, would cause an incredible amount of harm to Utah’s trans youth, and to its larger transgender community. In a report released in 2019, the CDC revealed that about 1.8 percent of high school students identify as transgender (the numbers in the general population could be...