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Transgender

Max Hightower, 17, who had been cast as Ali Hakim in his school performance of "Oklahoma," was sent to the principal's office to be told he was being cut from the role.
(Lil Kalish, Huffpost, November 9, 2023)
Follow Up
A school district in northern Texas announced unexpectedly this week that it will let a high school performance of “Oklahoma” go on as initially planned — including allowing a transgender student to play a lead role and reinstating actors who had been cut for dressing in clothes for roles that didn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth.
(Lil Kalish, Huffpost, November 15, 2023)
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed a bill on Monday that prohibits both surgical and non-surgical gender-affirming treatments for transgender youth. The law will take effect on July 1.
(C Mandler, CBS News, February 13, 2023 )

These States Had Few, If Any, Trans Student Athletes. They Passed Sports Bans Anyway.

Fischer Wells was the only trans student in Kentucky competing in high school sports — until the state legislature said she couldn't.
(Minyvonne Burke, HuffPost, September 18, 2022 )
Last year, a video of classmates beating sixth grader Chad Sanford drew national attention. A year later Sanford, now 14, was again brutalized for being openly trans.
( John Russell, LGBTQ Nation, August 11, 2022 )