Transgender Politics

“In a 6–3 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law restricting certain medical treatments for transgender minors, marking another significant victory for parental rights in protecting children from potentially harmful medical interventions.” - TGC

“As a teacher, Peter was passionate about the subject he taught, was well-liked by his students, and did his best to accommodate their needs and requests. But he couldn’t in good conscience speak messages that he knew were untrue.” - CPost

“The rule change went into effect Aug. 1 in states that agreed with it, but for more than half of U.S. states, it did not. At least 26 U.S. attorneys general have filed suit over the change, arguing it violates their states’ laws regarding transgender students participating in athletics.” - Baptist Press

“Oklahoma and Louisiana – have enacted laws that recognize the biological differences between men and women, and preserve women’s privacy and sex-segregated spaces.” - Daily Citizen

“Isabelle Ayala filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit…. claims to have been pressured by AAP-affiliated doctors into so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ as a minor.” - Breakpoint

“promoting women’s equality in athletics is an important governmental interest’ and that ‘not all gender-based classifications violate the Equal Protection Clause.’” - CPost

“Iowa parents have temporarily blocked a public school policy requiring their children to use the preferred pronouns of their transgender classmates and share bathrooms with them or face expulsion.” - BPNews

“Recent decisions by World Aquatics, requiring transgender men to compete in an ‘open’ category rather than against women, are examples of common sense prevailing in the transgender debate, according to two Southern Baptist leaders.” - BPNews

ERLC and Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention are backing parents seeking legal standing to contest the Eau Claire (WI) Area School District policy that “permits staff to conceal from parents their child is identifying at school as a gender different than his or her biological sex.” - BPNews

“… affirming an earlier trial court decision …concluding that the baker violated the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act by not creating a cake to celebrate a person’s new trans identity.” - CPost