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Utah Study on Trans Youth Care Extremely Inconvenient for Politicians Who Ordered It

Madison Pauly / 24/05/2025

In 2022, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was the rare Republican governor who seemed to truly care about the well-being of transgender kids. “I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live,” he wrote in a letter that year, explaining why he was […]

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Gender and Sexuality, Health Care, Politics, State Legislatures

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Trump’s Order Targeting State Climate Laws Is Probably Unconstitutional

Lois Parshley / 17/04/2025

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump continued dismantling US climate policy this week when he directed the Justice Department to challenge state laws aimed at addressing the crisis—a campaign legal scholars called unconstitutional and climate activists said is sure to fail. The president, who […]

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Climate Change, Climate Desk, Donald Trump, Energy, Environment, Politics, State Legislatures

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