U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) has filed a bill designed to ban public libraries and school libraries from excluding from their collection "books written or illustrated by an individual who is a member of an underrepresented community."
"Underrepresented community" includes racial minorities, homosexuals, people who identify with a gender identity that does not correspond to their biological sex, and members of a religious minority, according to the bill, which Pressley titled the "Books Save Lives Act."
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has signed onto a friend-of-the-court brief urging a federal appeals court to quash a state statute in Arkansas that allows minors to sue doctors for providing gender-transitioning surgery or hormone blockers.
Arkansas Senate Bill 199 ("An Act Concerning Medical Malpractice and Gender Transition In Minors …"), which the governor of Arkansas signed into law in March 2023, notes that medical authorities in Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom have distanced themselves from gender transitioning and "have since recommended psychotherapy as the first line of treatment for youth gender dysphoria."
