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• Philippine leader approves bill raising sex consent age from 12 to 16

MANILA – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday...
(By Reuters, The New York Post, US, March 7, 2022 )

• 2 Florida boys accused of battery for spraying Silly String at juveniles

CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Two boys are accused of battery after they allegedly sprayed two other juveniles with aerosol string, authorities said.
(Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group, US, March 2, 2022 )

• Florida High School Student Suspended After Handing Out Pride Flags

"I may have been suspended, but I will not be silenced. I am proud of who I am," said junior Jack Petocz after a protest against the "Don't Say Gay" bill.
(Mary Papenfuss, The HuffPost, US, March 4, 2022 )

• Texas removes life-saving LGBT+ suicide prevention resources from state websites

The Texas department of health and human services has removed suicide prevention resources for LGBT+ youth from its website.
(Lily Wakefield , PinkNews, UK, March 3, 2022 )

• Shocking moment former Teacher of the Year chases student down a hallway and SLAPS him across his face 'for wearing a hoodie to class': Teacher was allowed to take early retirement

An Indiana teacher was captured on school surveillance footage chasing after a student and slapping them round the face for wearing a hoodie sweatshirt to class.
(Andrea Cavallier, The Daily Mail, UK, March 3, 2022 )

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• Florida's 'Don’t Say Gay' Bill Would Be Devastating For Kids Like My 6-Year-Old Trans Son

How can a first grader understand gender? I don’t know that they really do ― but isn’t that the whole point? Maxim instinctively knew he was a boy and not a girl. He didn’t have to understand the construct of it because it was what he felt ― it’s just who he knows he is.
(Judith Schmidt,The Huffpost, US, March 2, 2022 )

• 'Fresh wounds:' 169 potential graves found at former Grouard residential school

University of Alberta researchers working with Kapawe`no First Nation have identified 169 potential graves at a former residential school site in northern Alberta.
(Hamdi Issawi, Edmonton Journal, Ca, March 1, 2022 )

• Inside the creepy 'prison cell' where adopted 14-year-old Florida boy's Christian parents 'kept him locked up with a bucket for a toilet, under constant video surveillance and spanked him with a belt as he lay naked'

The creepy ‘prison cell’ where a teen boy was allegedly kept locked up and under constant video surveillance by his clean-cut (teleiophile heterosexual) Christian parents can be revealed for the first time by DailyMail.com.
(Ben Ashford ,The Daily Mail, UK, February 28, 2022 )

• Teleiophile dad arrested after forcing son to drink hand sanitizer and beg for food before starving to death

Brandon Cervera was arrested by San Antonio police on Thursday in connection to the death of his son Benjamin. The 28-year-old dad was arrested after police obtained cell phone footage of the young boy begging for water and food, according to an affidavit.
( Danielle Cinone,The Sun, US, February 26, 2022 )

• Texas Gov. declares trans medical care child abuse & orders investigations of supportive parents

A bill to put supportive parents of trans kids in jail failed. Now the Republican governor and attorney general are trying to declare them child abusers themselves.
(Alex Bollinger, LGBTQ Nation, US, February 23, 2022 )

Follow up

• Texas judge halts Republicans’ plans to investigate families of trans children for “child abuse”

On Wednesday, Travis County District Judge Amy Clark Meachum granted a temporary restraining order that will prevent Republican Governor Greg Abbott from using the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to conduct “child abuse” investigations against parents who provide gender-affirming medical care to their trans kids.
(LGBTQ Nation, US, March 3, 2022 )