The resolution also says city personnel will not arrest or detain anyone sought by another jurisdiction for seeking gender-affirming care, respond to requests for information from other jurisdictions, or collect any civil penalties in such cases. for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations. But gender-affirming care for minors has been available in the U.S. who’ve attacked gender-affirming care as part of a larger effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights have argued that they’re protecting children from decisions they may later regret. Republican state lawmakers across the U.S. In Texas, the state capital of Austin declared last year that it should be considered a sanctuary for transgender youth and their families, and Harris County, home to Houston, declared it wouldn’t pursue cases against parents over gender-affirming care.Ĭalifornia, Minnesota and Washington have declared themselves sanctuary states for gender-affirming care, as have the cities of Chicago Minneapolis, Minnesota and West Hollywood, California. Kansas City’s proposal is coming from a Democratic-leaning city in a state with a Republican governor and GOP-controlled Legislature. But she backed the resolution after saying, “I do believe in good trouble, and this might just be one of those lines of good trouble.”
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