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Thursday’s State Board of Education meeting highlights include more progress reports from Tulsa Public Schools, State Superintendent Ryan Walters condemning a guidance letter from Stillwater Public Schools on new administrative rules and denying student requests to change gender markers.
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A bill in Oklahoma banning all forms of gender-affirming care for trans youth was paused by Oklahoma’s attorney general amid litigation from the ACLU of Oklahoma. Now, trans youth and providers are coping with all the uncertainty.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is the first governor in the country to issue an executive order defining people by their biological sex at birth as either “male” or “female.”
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Following multiple successful union elections last year, Oklahoma City Starbucks workers still await contracts. Access to gender-affirming care is one of their top priorities.
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Oklahoma filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on gender-affirming care, presenting stories from people who’ve “detransitioned” and citing a need to protect children.
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A federal judge has struck down Arkansas' 2021 ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth calling it unconstitutional and saying the state's experts were motivated by ideology, not science.
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For much of his life, the Canadian actor experienced gender dysphoria that made him extremely uncomfortable in his own body. "It's like a constant noise," he says. His new memoir is called Pageboy.
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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discusses the nearly $13B budget approved by legislative leaders, Attorney General Gentner Drummond promising to not enforce a new law banning gender-affirming care for minors, and more.
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The bill cleared the GOP-controlled Legislature after a final vote in the Senate over the objections of Democrats. Texas is now poised to join at least 17 other states that have enacted similar bans.
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The Oklahoma House of Representatives moved to ban classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity Tuesday with the passage of a bill that uses nearly identical language to Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” Bill.