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1. Proposed legislation in Idaho and Texas discriminates against Transgender Youth and removes protections for children at risk of undergoing FGC
(News & Blog)
By Hunter Kessous Texas and Idaho are two states in which female genital cutting (FGC) is illegal under state law, for now. In both states, amendments have been proposed in the state legislature that ...
Created on 01 March 2023
2. Troubling Idaho House Bill 71 moves on to Senate
(News & Blog)
In 2019, the Idaho Legislature established a law protecting girls from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), recognizing it as a violation of human rights.  Yet, for the past two years, the same ...
Created on 24 February 2023
3. Reflecting on A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
... the importance of gender affirming care, which refers to medical interventions that support an individual's gender identity. With anti-FGC bills in Texas and Idaho that prohibit gender affirming care, healthcare ...
Created on 01 August 2022
4. Gender-Affirming Treatments are not Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... legislators in Texas and Idaho are looking to use pre-existing bans on FGC to block transgender youth from receiving life-saving, medically necessary gender-affirming treatments. This is a discriminatory ...
Created on 22 March 2022
5. 31 US States Now Have Laws Against Female Genital Cutting, But Government Will Not Appeal in the Federal Michigan Case
(News & Blog)
... in Detroit, Michigan, on nine minor girls.  In positive news, however, 31 out of 50 states in the USA now have laws banning Female Genital Cutting after Idaho, Arkansas, and Utah passed laws to that ...
Created on 05 May 2019
6. Proposed legislation in Idaho and Texas discriminates against Transgender Youth and removes protections for children at risk of undergoing FGC
(News & Blog)
By Hunter Kessous Texas and Idaho are two states in which female genital cutting (FGC) is illegal under state law, for now. In both states, amendments have been proposed in the state legislature that ...
Created on 01 March 2023
7. Troubling Idaho House Bill 71 moves on to Senate
(News & Blog)
In 2019, the Idaho Legislature established a law protecting girls from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), recognizing it as a violation of human rights.  Yet, for the past two years, the same ...
Created on 24 February 2023
8. Reflecting on A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
... the importance of gender affirming care, which refers to medical interventions that support an individual's gender identity. With anti-FGC bills in Texas and Idaho that prohibit gender affirming care, healthcare ...
Created on 01 August 2022
9. Gender-Affirming Treatments are not Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... legislators in Texas and Idaho are looking to use pre-existing bans on FGC to block transgender youth from receiving life-saving, medically necessary gender-affirming treatments. This is a discriminatory ...
Created on 22 March 2022
10. 31 US States Now Have Laws Against Female Genital Cutting, But Government Will Not Appeal in the Federal Michigan Case
(News & Blog)
... in Detroit, Michigan, on nine minor girls.  In positive news, however, 31 out of 50 states in the USA now have laws banning Female Genital Cutting after Idaho, Arkansas, and Utah passed laws to that ...
Created on 05 May 2019
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Created on 24 February 2023
12. Proposed legislation in Idaho and Texas discriminates against Transgender Youth and removes protections for children at risk of undergoing FGC
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By Hunter Kessous Texas and Idaho are two states in which female genital cutting (FGC) is illegal under state law, for now. In both states, amendments have been proposed in the state legislature that ...
Created on 02 March 2023
13. Troubling Idaho House Bill 71 moves on to Senate
(Article tagged with: Idaho)
In 2019, the Idaho Legislature established a law protecting girls from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), recognizing it as a violation of human rights.  Yet, for the past two years, the same ...
Created on 24 February 2023

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