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News (USA)
Teens sue in Utah to be allowed to play sports in school
“This law devastated me. I just want to play on a team like any other kid.”
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News (USA)
Trans equality wins in Kansas as legislature fails to override sports ban veto
Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a transgender sports ban was upheld in the state house.
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News (USA)
Kansas’s Laura Kelly is the 4th governor this year to veto a trans sports ban
The bill would have let school districts figure out how to see if a student-athlete is trans or cis. Laura Kelly said “no” to the whole scheme.
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Politics
Utah legislature overrides Gov’s veto and passes anti-trans sports bill
Republican Gov. Spencer Cox sent an impassioned letter pleading with lawmakers not to pass the bill.
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News (USA)
Utah’s Republican governor vetoes transgender sports ban
“I am not an expert on transgenderism,” Gov. Spencer Cox wrote. “When in doubt however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion.”
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News
Utah’s GOP governor will veto a trans sports ban, then the real battle will begin
Utah’s battle over trans athletes is about to get a lot rowdier, forcing courts to make the final call.
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Politics
Utah Republicans demand government panel to evaluate trans kids’ bodies
“When we start talking about these ‘Verify that you’re girl enough, or verify that you’re boy enough’ [policies], these kiddos, they shake in their proverbial boots.”
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News (USA)
Utah governor teared up as he explained why he won’t sign an anti-trans bill
“When you spend time with these kids, it changes your heart in important ways.”
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News (USA)
Kudos for Utah Republican politician whose ‘heart has changed’ on gays
“You have treated me with the kindness, dignity, and respect, the love that I very often did not deserve. And it has made me love you.”
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Commentary
The private war that killed Spencer Cox
Gay activists like Spencer Cox were consumed by AIDS for so many gruesome years that many of them were shocked, once the war abated, to see how little around them had changed. Climbing from the trenches, they saw a gay culture that must have seemed ludicrous, packed with the same drug addictions, sexual compulsions and soulless shenanigans that AIDS, in its singular act of goodwill, had arrested for a decade or so.