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Idaho - Gov. Brad Little signs forced outing bill into law. HB 822 requires school staff, healthcare providers, and child care providers to notify parents within three days if a minor asks to be called by a different name or to use pronouns that do not align with their sex assigned at birth. The law takes effect July 1st. Maine - State legislature declines to pass anti-trans citizen initiative into law. A ballot initiative which would ban trans women and girls from participating in school sports and from using school facilities aligned with their gender identity was put before the legislature’s Judiciary Committee on April 14th. The Committee declined to consider the initiative, and so it will not become law unless voters approve the initiative when it appears on the ballot in November. Minnesota - State’s largest pediatric healthcare provider resumes provision of medically necessary care for trans and nonbinary youth. Children’s Minnesota announced it resumed providing gender-affirming care services to trans and nonbinary youth on April 6th, after suspending provision of such care in February following the release of a directive from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Montana - State Supreme Court rules transgender residents have a right to update the gender marker on their IDs and state documents. The Court ruled 5-2 that SB 458, which banned transgender Montanans from updating the gender marker on their IDs and birth certificates, violated the Montana constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and individual dignity. New Hampshire - Lawmakers debate bill creating procedure for removal of books from schools. SB 434 would allow parents to request the removal of any material from school libraries that they believe is “harmful to minors.” The bill also creates an appeal process for parents to continue seeking the removal of a book or other material after a school district finds that it is acceptable and age-appropriate. Tennessee - State legislature passes bill to track data related to the provision of gender-affirming care, protect conversion “therapists”. HB 754/SB 676 passed the Senate on April 13th. The bill requires gender-affirming care providers to give the state aggregate data about gender-affirming care services they are providing. The bill also prohibits localities from banning conversion “therapy” practices. Texas - Texas Tech University System chancellor orders campuses to phase out academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation and gender identity. Chancellor Brandon Creighton released a memo on April 10th, which gives Texas Tech campuses until June 15th to identify these sexual orientation and gender identity-related programs, freeze admissions to them and halt students from declaring majors in those programs. The memo also states that faculty may only recognize “two human sexes” and may not teach gender identity as a spectrum.
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