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Anchia files PrEP information bill
State Rep. Rafael Anchia
State Rep. Rafael Anchia filed HB2006 to
require that anyone who receives a negative HIV
test result will be provided with information about
PrEP — pre-exposure prophylaxis — to prevent
transmission of HIV in the future.
Resource Center Communications and Advoca-
cy Manager Rafael McDonnell called it a common
sense bill that would help prevent the spread of
HIV on a statewide basis. His agency and others
that do HIV testing already regularly offer that
information when providing HIV test results.
All the bill would required be offered
is information.
“If they get a negative test result, is PrEP right for
them as an HIV preventive tool?” McDonnell said.
No prescriptions would be offered. No referrals
to a doctor or clinic prescribing PrEP would be
required by the bill. Simply information.
McDonnell said he believes the reason PrEP
hasn’t been as popular in Texas as elsewhere is
simply a lack of information.
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Same-sex marriage reduces
adolescent suicide
A new study released by the Juvenile American
Medical Association indicates that legalization
of same-sex marriage has reduced adolescent
suicide attempts.
Using information from 47 states, same-sex
marriage policies were associated with a 7 per-
cent reduction in the proportion of all high school
students reporting a suicide attempt over the past
year. Suicide is the second leading cause of death
among 15-to-24-year-olds.
The report concludes that some of the reasons
for reduction in suicide include policies preventing
same-sex marriage constitute social stigma and
increased media attention that accompanies legal-
ization includes increased social support.
— David Taffet
Trump rescinds guidelines pro-
tecting trans students
Betsy DeVos, left, Jeff Sessions, right
Despite pleas from parents of transgender
children and LGBT employees, the Trump admin-
istration on Tuesday, Feb. 22 rescinded Obama-
era guidance to schools barring discrimination
against transgender students and ensuring they
have access to the restroom consistent with their
gender identity.
Mara Keisling, executive director of the National
Center for Transgender Equality, told the Wash-
ington Blade on Monday, “This is the first day of
the president’s second month in office and he is
now fully coming after LGBT people,” Keisling
said. |’m angry; I’m outraged. This is about kids
who just want to go to school who just want to be
themselves, and to hear the president a week or
two ago talk about how supportive he is of LGBT
people, it’s just outrageous that he’d go after trans
kids this way.”
Removal of the guidance would fulfill a
campaign promise from Trump, who pledged to
rescind the guidance after it was issued, but still
“protect everybody,” amid outcry from conser-
vative-leaning states. The Trump administration
would be moving to rescind the guidance shortly
after the confirmation of U.S. Attorney General Jeff
Sessions and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
Jointly issued in May under the Obama admin-
istration by the Justice Department and Education
Department, the guidance asserts that denying
transgender students access to the restroom in
accordance with their gender identity violates the
prohibition on sex discrimination under Title IX of
the Education Amendments of 1972.
Rescinding the guidance is consistent with a
legal brief the Justice Department filed earlier this
month in litigation against the guidance filed by
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on behalf of
12 states. As a result of the litigation, U.S. District
Judge Reed O’Connor issued a preliminary injunc-
tion barring the administration from enforcing the
guidance nationwide.
Although the Justice Department under former
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch filed an ap-
peal along with a request with the U.S. Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals seeking to limit the scope of the
injunction to the 12 plaintiff states, the brief under
Sessions withdraws that request and informs the
federal appeals court the Trump administration is
“currently considering how best to proceed in this
appeal.”
— Chris Johnson/Washington Blade
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