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Top GOP lawmakers argue medical condition entitles state to prohibit transgender girls from playing girls’ sports

Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services//July 25, 2023//[read_meter]

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A federal judge will allow several children to sue on behalf of all transgender people born in Arizona to force the state to change the gender on their birth certificates. In a new order, Judge James Soto said that the individuals who filed suit in 2020, all minors, want to permanently bar the Arizona Department of Health Services from enforcing a provision of state law that says the agency will not amend a birth certificate based solely on the person's claim argument they have "gender dysphoria'' and do not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. (Photo by Pexels)

Top GOP lawmakers argue medical condition entitles state to prohibit transgender girls from playing girls’ sports

Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services//July 25, 2023//[read_meter]

The state’s top Republican lawmakers contend that it is a medical condition and not a discriminatory state law that entitles Arizona to bar transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports....

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