Tag: transgender procedures

Hackers Claim Attack on Texas City Website, Citing State’s Ban on Transgender Procedures for Children

A group of hackers said it attacked a Texas city government website due to the state’s recently-enacted law on transgender procedures and said it is planning more attacks. The group, SiegedSec, took to Telegram on June 23 around 4:00 p.m. to post what it says are about roughly 500 thousand files leaked from the Texas Fort Worth…


West Virginia Bans Transgender Procedures for Minors, With Exceptions

On Wednesday, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice signed a bill banning transgender procedures for minors into law in the state. However, it comes with exceptions that sometimes allow for treatments to be administered. The law, which goes into effect in January 2024, lets doctors prescribe puberty (hormone) blockers or hormone therapy if the minor is…


Kentucky Bans Transgender Procedures for Minors After Lawmakers Override Governor’s Veto

Lawmakers in Kentucky’s legislature on Wednesday passed into law S.B. 150—a bill that prevents minors from accessing transgender procedures—having voted to override Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of the measure. The move means that Kentucky is the 11th state in the country to ban transgender procedures for minors. It becomes the eighth state to do so this…


Woman Charged With Fake Bomb Threat of Boston Children’s Hospital For Providing Trans Surgeries

A woman from Westfield, Massachusetts, was arrested and charged on Thursday after she allegedly made a false bomb threat against the Boston Children’s Hospital. The hospital received the threat via phone on Aug. 30, with the caller claiming that “there is a bomb on the way to the hospital, you better evacuate everybody you sickos,”…


Biden Admin Challenges Alabama Law That Bans Transgender Procedures, Substances for Youth

The Department of Justice under the Biden administration filed a complaint on Friday to challenge a new Alabama law that bans certain transgender procedures and substances for people under 18. The Justice Department’s complaint (pdf) alleges that the new Alabama law “violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause” by discriminating on the basis of sex and transgender…