New Hampshire
Bans on gender-affirming care would have a ‘catastrophic’ impact on LGBTQ youth in NH, health providers warn
As New Hampshire lawmakers put together to contemplate payments aimed toward banning gender-affirming take care of transgender youth, native medical suppliers and psychological well being professionals are pushing again — saying the proposed laws isn’t based mostly in science and could be damaging to weak younger folks.
New Hampshire-based suppliers stated entry to medical care that affirms their gender identification — and a supportive social setting — could make an enormous distinction within the psychological well being of trans youth, who wrestle with greater charges of melancholy, nervousness and suicidal ideation.
Harvey Feldman, a New Hampshire-based therapist who works with LGBTQ youth, stated the mere existence of those proposals can take a toll, even after they don’t cross.
“There’s a lot of questions developing about, ‘What does this imply for me?’ ‘What if I can not get care?’ ‘What if the care that I get will get taken away from me?’” Feldman stated. “You understand, there’s lots of stress and nervousness and fear.”
This isn’t the primary time, he added, “that we have now to go to the state Legislature and basically ask to have the ability to exist.”
Conservative state lawmakers throughout the U.S. have more and more sought to limit entry to this type of care lately, as half of a bigger push to limit the rights of trans youth.
The ban on gender-affirming take care of minors in New Hampshire is included in a sweeping Republican-sponsored invoice earlier than New Hampshire lawmakers Tuesday, which might additionally prohibit trans college students in Okay-12 faculties from utilizing the loos that align with their gender identities, amongst different restrictions. One other Republican invoice additionally scheduled for a public listening to Tuesday would outline gender-affirming care as youngster abuse.
Democrats have put ahead their very own invoice defending entry to gender-affirming care, which may even be heard Tuesday.
Gender-affirming care has the backing of main medical teams together with the American Medical Affiliation, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Affiliation and the Endocrine Society.
For youth, this type of care may contain counseling, medication that delay the onset of puberty and hormone remedy later in adolescence.
Analysis has discovered that gender-affirming care is related to higher psychological well being outcomes, together with decreases in melancholy and nervousness and fewer suicide makes an attempt.
Folks “expertise an incredible quantity of reduction — and a discount in signs of tension, misery, melancholy — after they can align who they’re with their physique,” Feldman stated. Banning that care would have a “catastrophic” affect on the psychological well being of people that want it, he added.
“I believe if we have been speaking about somebody who had juvenile diabetes, after which was not allowed to entry insulin, we may perceive,” Feldman stated.
In written testimony opposing one of many proposed bans in New Hampshire, Caroline Callery, a registered nurse at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Middle’s pediatric endocrinology division, described comparable impacts.
“Many of the sufferers I initially meet are hurting, they’re depressed, anxious and generally suicidal,” Callery wrote. “After getting on these life-saving medicines resembling puberty blockers, to delay puberty and provides them the time to determine what is true for their very own our bodies, I personally see these adolescents expertise a metamorphosis.”
Dr. Jack Turco is an endocrinologist who co-directs Dartmouth Well being’s transgender and gender-diverse well being program. Withholding gender-affirming care, he stated, would violate his moral obligation as a health care provider to do no hurt.
“We now have superb knowledge to point out that with out being supported, these kids and households have lots of potential for unfavorable outcomes,” he stated.
Susan Stearns, the manager director of the New Hampshire chapter of the Nationwide Alliance on Psychological Sickness, echoed Feldman’s considerations in regards to the affect of legislative debates over trans rights on youth.
She talked about a 2021 ballot commissioned by nationwide LGBTQ advocacy group The Trevor Venture, which discovered 85% of transgender and nonbinary youth surveyed stated debates about such restrictions had been detrimental to their psychological well being.
“There isn’t any query that our youth are listening, and our youth are nicely conscious of those payments, right here in New Hampshire, and throughout the nation,” Stearns stated.
Folks experiencing a psychological well being disaster in New Hampshire can name or textual content 833-710-6477 for the state’s Fast Response Entry Level or 988 for the Nationwide Suicide & Disaster Lifeline. The Trevor Venture additionally presents entry to counselors.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Senate passes bill that would prohibit trans athletes' inclusion with gender identity
The New Hampshire senate has passed a bill that would place limitations on transgender athletes.
The bill would ban transgender athletes in grades 5-12 from teams that align with their gender identity.
Supporters of the legislation said they wanted to protect girls from being injured by larger and stronger transgender athletes.
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A bill passed in New Hampshire that would ban trans athletes in grades 5-12 from participating with their gender identity. (Fox News)
“When we talk about fairness and rights, we can’t cover every circumstance. And so in a very narrow way that I think to most of us is very clear, biological boys have an advantage over biological girls,” said Senate President Jeb Bradley, a Republican from Wolfeboro. “We’ll never be able to legislate total fairness. But what we can’t do is create rights for one at the expense of another.”
Meanwhile, Democrats who opposed the bill said it was based on fear mongering. Sen. Debra Altschiller, a Democrat from Stratham, said there are only five transgender girls in New Hampshire who are athletes.
“Those five girls are not a threat. They are the threatened,” she said. “While this gesture of protection may seem valiant, we say, ‘No thank you.’ If you really want to protect girls, protect the marginalized transgender girls.”
The passing of the bill comes a couple weeks after Arkansas governor Sarah Sanders signed an executive order in response to President Biden’s new Title IX regulations that added protections for transgender athletes. Sanders said she had been “appalled” by the “attack on common sense.”
FILE – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks on February 7, 2023, in Little Rock, Arkansas. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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At least 20 states have approved a version of a blanket ban on transgender athletes playing on K-12 and collegiate sports teams statewide, but a Biden administration rule to forbid such outright bans is set to take effect this year after multiple delays and much pushback.
In New Hampshire, the Senate previously passed a bill that would have banned transgender girls from participating on sports teams at both the high school and college levels, but the House defeated it earlier this month.
Senate President Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfboro, presides over the Senate on May 15. (Margie Cullen / USA TODAY NETWORK)
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Six states sued the Department of Education due to the overhaul of Title IX. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti and Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Tuesday that they are leading the charge.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire day care workers sprinkled melatonin in children’s food unbeknownst to parents, police say
A New Hampshire day care owner and three of her employees are facing child endangerment charges for allegedly spiking kids’ food with melatonin without their parents’ knowledge or consent. (Manchester Police Department)
The owner and three workers at a New Hampshire day care are facing charges after they sprinkled melatonin in the food of children they were responsible for.
Sally Dreckmann, 52, the day care owner; and her employees Traci Innie, 51; Kaitlin Filardo, 23; and Jessica Foster, 23, all of Manchester, were charged with 10 counts of endangering the welfare of a child, the Manchester Police Department said.
Authorities said that children’s food that was provided by the in-house day care was being sprinkled with melatonin without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
Melatonin is a sleep-aid and is generally safe to use short-term, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“This is an over-the-counter drug that can be given as a sleep aid, but for it to be given to children without the knowledge or consent of the parents, it’s very concerning,” Heather Hamel, a spokesperson for the Manchester Police Department, told WDHD.
The arrests came following a lengthy investigation after authorities were alerted of “unsafe practices” in Nov. 2023 at the day care.
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President Joe Biden is heading to Boston next week after he makes a stop in New Hampshire, the White House said according to multiple reports.
On Tuesday, Biden is expected to hold an official White House event in Merrimack, N.H., before he travels down to Boston, WCVB-TV reported citing the White House. It will be his second trip to New Hampshire this year after he was in the Granite State in March.
The last time he was in Boston, back in December, Biden appeared at a James Taylor benefit concert where funds went to the Biden Victory Fund. He attended several fundraisers, including one where he suggested the nation is at a “real inflection point in history,” hinting at the election and the likelihood of facing former President Donald Trump again in November.
“Because this time we’re running against an election denier-in-chief. Trump is not even hiding the ball anymore,” Biden said, according to a pool report. “He’s simply not hiding the ball. He’s telling us what he wants to do. He’s proud to say he killed Roe v. Wade by the [U.S. Supreme] court he appointed.
“He’s running again to get rid of the Affordable Care Act,” Biden continued. “I could go on. But let’s be clear about the side — what’s at stake in 2024: Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are determined to destroy American democracy.”
Then-Republican National Committee Chairperson Ronna McDaniel slammed Biden at the time for getting “cozy” with “his elite donors.”
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