A legislative committee in Maine has killed a bill that would have given a state court "temporary emergency jurisdiction" over a child if "it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child … because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care."
The bill, Maine LD 1735 ("An Act To Safeguard Gender-Affirming Health Care"), also would have prevented courts from "considering as a factor weighing against the petitioner any taking of the
A legislative committee in Maine has killed a bill that would have given a state court "temporary emergency jurisdiction" over a child if "it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child … because the child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care."
The bill, Maine LD 1735 ("An Act To Safeguard Gender-Affirming Health Care"), also would have prevented courts from "considering as a factor weighing against the petitioner any taking of the…
