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At that point, the backers of the measures can begin circulating petitions for signatures. Each measure \u003ca href=\"https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ballot-measures/pdf/statewide-initiative-guide.pdf\">must collect nearly 550,000 signatures (PDF)\u003c/a> to qualify for the 2024 ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transgender advocates say the effort is putting LGBTQ+ youth directly in harm’s way. According to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2023/\"> 2023 national survey\u003c/a> from The Trevor Project, a nonprofit suicide-prevention group, almost a third of LGBTQ+ youth said they suffered from mental health issues due to discriminatory policies and legislation. 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Zachreson says the measure is intended to prevent transgender girls from competing in female competitions and, in his words, “unfairly winning.” He points to the instance of \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12120895/Trans-skier-took-spot-California-womens-race-competitors-dad-hits-result.html\">a transgender skier who won\u003c/a> a California-Nevada high school race earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important that we bring integrity back to women’s sports and we protect their spaces,” Zachreson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second initiative would require schools to notify parents if a child requests that a teacher or peer identify them as a gender different from the one assigned at birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That issue recently garnered\u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2023/07/20/state-schools-chief-tony-thurmond-booted-from-chino-valley-school-board-meeting/\"> headlines when Chino Valley Unified School District enacted a similar policy\u003c/a>, prompting the California Attorney General’s office to \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-announces-lawsuit-challenging-chino-valley-unified-school?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=7e162ac5aa-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-7e162ac5aa-151883311&mc_cid=7e162ac5aa&mc_eid=b7b597a2a8\">sue the district\u003c/a>, arguing such a policy is a civil rights violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s call this policy what it is: It is a forced outing policy,” Bonta said at a press conference earlier this week, announcing the suit. “It tramples on students’ rights. It presents students with a terrible choice: Either walk back your rights to gender identity and gender expression, to be yourself, to be who you are. Or, face the risk of serious harm.”[aside postID=\"news_11959323,news_11959451,news_11936552\" label=\"Related Posts\"]The third initiative submitted by the group would prevent doctors from providing gender-affirming care like puberty blockers to people under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These kids are fast-tracked to removing body parts and put on cross-sex hormones,” said Erin Friday, a backer of the measure and self-proclaimed Democrat, who says her daughter considered transitioning when she was 13, but was ultimately dissuaded from doing so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents point to studies showing that access to \u003ca href=\"https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/gender-affirming-care-saves-lives#:~:text=Research%20demonstrates%20that%20gender%2Daffirming,and%20nonbinary%20children%20and%20adolescents.\">puberty blockers and hormone therapies is crucial in reducing the high rate of suicides among transgender youth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These extremists want the state of California to override parents, override the doctors, override the kids whose life is at issue. 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We believe that no one should be prosecuted or persecuted for getting the care they need — including gender-affirming care,” Newsom said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SB-107-SIGNING.pdf?emrc=1a80c5\">signing message\u003c/a>. “Parents know what’s best for their kids, and they should be able to make decisions around the health of their children without fear. We must take a stand for parental choice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11927310,news_11925478,news_11908591\"]This year \u003ca href=\"https://freedomforallamericans.org/legislative-tracker/medical-care-bans/\">a wave of bills\u003c/a> in states ranging from New Hampshire to Arizona have attempted to limit, ban or criminalize access to medical care for transgender and nonbinary youth. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.billtrack50.com/BillDetail/1247206\">Alabama law\u003c/a> passed in February not only banned medication for transgender youth, but ruled that doctors who break it could face up to 10 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t disfigure 10-, 12-, 13-year-old kids based on gender dysphoria,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/desantis-doctors-should-sued-kids-gender-surgery-1730656\">said at an August press conference\u003c/a>. “I think these doctors need to get sued for what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these laws are in legal limbo as they are \u003ca href=\"https://www.alreporter.com/2022/05/09/alabama-law-criminalizing-care-for-transgender-youth-faces-storm-of-legal-challenges/\">challenged in court\u003c/a>. Meanwhile, families are panicking.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Scared out of Texas\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After decades of building a life in Texas, a mother of a 12-year-old suddenly worried she might be investigated for child abuse, after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Department of Family Protective Services to \u003ca href=\"https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/O-MastersJaime202202221358.pdf\">investigate parents who are providing gender-affirming care to their kids\u003c/a> last February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were stunned that it was no longer safe for us to be there,” said the mother, who asked that KQED not use her name to protect her identity and that of her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after a Texas judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1086039378/texas-transgender-investigations-blockedxas-court-hearing/\">temporarily stayed such investigations\u003c/a>, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1502477644973101057a/2022/03/17/texas-trans-child-abuse-investigations/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">insisted that they were legal and would continue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media reports soon detailed experiences where \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/09/texas-transgender-student-school-lawsuit/\">state investigators pulled trans youth out of classrooms\u003c/a> for interrogations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With their parents not being there,” said the Texas mother, adding that she heard similar stories from family friends. “And these are children that have only socially transitioned. All they asked for was to be called a different pronoun. That’s terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, her own 12-year-old daughter asked her friends and family to use feminine pronouns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we sat down and talked to our kid,” she said. “We gave her a little card to go to school with that listed her rights and told her what to do if somebody came to investigate us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the family could not relax. They said they had no choice but to sell their home. This fall they packed up all of their belongings and moved to Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels very good to not feel like you’re in danger — in that really critical place of our family being ripped apart,” said the mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providing refuge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They feel safe under a new law authored by state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), which declares that any potential out-of-state arrest warrant for violating laws related to such care will be given “the lowest law enforcement priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to provide them with refuge and we’re not going to send them back and we’re not going to honor subpoenas,” said Sen. Wiener. “And our law enforcement is not going to enforce the laws of Texas and Alabama criminalizing these families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11929270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family at a rally at the Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, to support trans kids. A recent wave of bills has sought to ban or criminalize gender-affirming care for trans minors in several states. \u003ccite>(Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>High stakes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mental health therapists say \u003ca href=\"https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/gender-affirming-care-saves-lives#:~:text=Research%20demonstrates%20that%20gender%2Daffirming,and%20nonbinary%20children%20and%20adolescents.\">puberty blockers and hormone therapy can save lives\u003c/a>. A recent survey found that nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2022/\">1 in 5 transgender 13- to 24-year-olds have attempted suicide\u003c/a> in the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The World Health Organization defines gender-affirming care as a variety of “social, psychological, behavioral and medical interventions designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These interventions can be nonmedical — called social transitioning — like when a child adopts a chosen name and/or new pronouns or dresses in alignment with their gender identity. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1054139X18300855?casa_token=-7GD1S60G7cAAAAA:KGdKY4GcSCMr2GAaXVVM-ROXVzsEjKTZImcFc1t6hD6d-uIo8g-3tvtGvT1zt6ozpQ0mkg86v2o\">Research\u003c/a> suggests changing one’s name may reduce depression and suicide ideation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, beginning in early adolescence, doctors may prescribe medical interventions. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision\">World Professional Association for Transgender Health\u003c/a> recommends waiting until youth are 15 years old for surgical procedures, according to their \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gender-transition-treatment-guidelines-9dbe54f670a3a0f5f2831c2bf14f9bbb\">new guidance\u003c/a> released over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Constitutional questions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new California law faces fierce opposition. Forty-five organizations, including the \u003ca href=\"https://adflegal.org/article/california-thinks-it-can-raise-your-kids-better-you-can\">Alliance Defending Freedom\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.heritage.org/gender/commentary/california-attacks-parents-rights-under-the-guise-medical-care\">The Heritage Foundation\u003c/a>, penned a letter to Newsom urging him to veto Wiener’s bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want these treatments to not be happening on minors because they’re permanent,” said Greg Burt, director of capitol engagement for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.californiafamily.org/2022/09/gov-newsom-signs-bill-to-strip-children-from-parents-to-medically-transgender-them/\">California Family Council\u003c/a>, a Christian faith-based organization. “We do not assume that your body is the problem. We think it’s much more logical to encourage young people to try and get their minds to match their bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929274\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1239665321.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11929274\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1239665321-800x545.jpg\" alt=\"a person wears a shirt that reads 'protect trans kids'\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1239665321-800x545.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1239665321-1020x695.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1239665321-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1239665321.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person takes part in a rally during a Transgender Day of Visibility event outside the State House in Boston on March 31, 2022. \u003ccite>(Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet the standard of care for kids who are really distressed and diagnosed with gender dysphoria does include medical interventions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is also acting as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914440/california-wants-to-be-the-nations-abortion-haven\">a sanctuary for those individuals seeking abortions\u003c/a> from other states after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the historic 1973 ruling that granted a legal right to the procedure. But conservatives, including Burt, argue that California’s “sanctuary” laws on abortion and gender-affirming care violate the Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be a constitutional crisis if states don’t honor each other’s civil judgments,” Burt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Levinson, professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said there “could be litigation both with respect to abortion and with respect to gender-affirming care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she and other legal experts are not convinced by conservative critiques that the new California laws violate the Constitution’s \u003ca href=\"https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIV-S1-1/ALDE_00013015/\">full faith and credit clause\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Kathie Moehlig, executive director, Trans Family Support Services\"]‘The politicians should not be making medical decisions for anybody, nor should they be making parental decisions for anybody.’[/pullquote]“I think the weight of the law indicates that states are separate sovereigns. If and until there is a national standard that indicates nobody can obtain gender-affirming care or nobody can obtain an abortion, the law allows for a patchwork,” Levinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That patchwork is crucial to the families seeking help at \u003ca href=\"https://transfamilysos.org/\">Trans Family Support Services\u003c/a> in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The politicians should not be making medical decisions for anybody, nor should they be making parental decisions for anybody,” said Kathie Moehlig, the organization’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a decade ago, Moehlig helped her 11-year-old access puberty blockers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My son would not still be alive if we waited until 18,” she said. “He already was in so much distress and so completely miserable that his body was becoming something that he knew he was not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today she says her son is thriving in college, studying theology. He has never regretted transitioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no solid data on how many kids remain satisfied with medical interventions, or feel remorse about gender-affirming transitions. A recent report from Reuters highlights the \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-care/\">lack of solid evidence on the long-term effects of gender-affirming care\u003c/a>. For example, there is very little known about how transitioning affects fertility or cognitive development. Puberty blockers and sex hormones do not have FDA approval for children’s gender care, and the National Institutes of Health has said that clinical trials have not yet determined whether there are any short- or long-term health risks for teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Moehlig family, their only regret is that they waited as long as they did to transition their son.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were stunned that it was no longer safe for us to be there,” said the mother, who asked that KQED not use her name to protect her identity and that of her child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after a Texas judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/11/1086039378/texas-transgender-investigations-blockedxas-court-hearing/\">temporarily stayed such investigations\u003c/a>, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1502477644973101057a/2022/03/17/texas-trans-child-abuse-investigations/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\">insisted that they were legal and would continue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media reports soon detailed experiences where \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/09/texas-transgender-student-school-lawsuit/\">state investigators pulled trans youth out of classrooms\u003c/a> for interrogations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With their parents not being there,” said the Texas mother, adding that she heard similar stories from family friends. “And these are children that have only socially transitioned. All they asked for was to be called a different pronoun. That’s terrifying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years ago, her own 12-year-old daughter asked her friends and family to use feminine pronouns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so we sat down and talked to our kid,” she said. “We gave her a little card to go to school with that listed her rights and told her what to do if somebody came to investigate us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the family could not relax. They said they had no choice but to sell their home. This fall they packed up all of their belongings and moved to Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels very good to not feel like you’re in danger — in that really critical place of our family being ripped apart,” said the mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Providing refuge\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>They feel safe under a new law authored by state Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), which declares that any potential out-of-state arrest warrant for violating laws related to such care will be given “the lowest law enforcement priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are going to provide them with refuge and we’re not going to send them back and we’re not going to honor subpoenas,” said Sen. Wiener. “And our law enforcement is not going to enforce the laws of Texas and Alabama criminalizing these families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11929270\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11929270\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/GettyImages-1385208037-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family at a rally at the Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, to support trans kids. A recent wave of bills has sought to ban or criminalize gender-affirming care for trans minors in several states. \u003ccite>(Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>High stakes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mental health therapists say \u003ca href=\"https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/gender-affirming-care-saves-lives#:~:text=Research%20demonstrates%20that%20gender%2Daffirming,and%20nonbinary%20children%20and%20adolescents.\">puberty blockers and hormone therapy can save lives\u003c/a>. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision\">World Professional Association for Transgender Health\u003c/a> recommends waiting until youth are 15 years old for surgical procedures, according to their \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gender-transition-treatment-guidelines-9dbe54f670a3a0f5f2831c2bf14f9bbb\">new guidance\u003c/a> released over the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Constitutional questions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new California law faces fierce opposition. 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