In addition to a history of anti-LGBTQ statements, the Ohio Republican is the primary sponsor of at least two pieces of federal legislation threatening to sharply roll back transgender rights, including one proposal that aims to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors nationwide.

That bill, the Senate version of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) Protect Children’s Innocence Act, would charge health care providers who violate it with a Class C felony, punishable by more than a decade in prison. It would also prevent institutions of higher education from providing instruction about gender-affirming care and cut funding for health plans that cover treatment.

Transgender kids rarely get gender-affirming surgeries — in fact, cisgender children are much more likely to get them, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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U.S. poverty spiked in 2022, reversing gains, Census Bureau data shows

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

U.S. poverty spiked over the last year, with child poverty more than doubling, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday, while the proportion of people lacking health insurance in 2022 dropped to an uncommonly low level.
U.S. poverty spiked in 2022, reversing gains, Census Bureau data shows

A New Study Suggests That Black Southerners’ Access to Firearms Reduced Lynchings

September 9, 2022September 9, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In her 1892 pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, the journalist Ida B. Wells argued that firearms were an essential tool in preventing the deadly white supremacist violence that she chronicled. “Of the many inhuman outrages of this present year, the only case where the proposed lynching did not occur, was where the men armed themselves in Jacksonville, Fla., and Paducah, Ky, and prevented it,” she wrote. “The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.”
A New Study Suggests That Black Southerners’ Access to Firearms Reduced Lynchings

3.8 million tenants in the US could be evicted in the next two months

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

According to the United States Census Bureau, 3.8 million tenants are likely to be evicted in the next two months. Comparatively, only 3.6 million eviction cases were filed in the entire year of 2018. In 2018, the Eviction Lab at Princeton University estimated that there were only 898,479 evictions in 2016, although this number may be a low estimate compared to more recent reports.
3.8 million tenants in the US could be evicted in the next two months

Census Bureau: 3.8 million renters will likely be evicted in the next two months — why the rental crisis keeps getting worse

August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

For the first time ever, the median rent in the U.S. topped $2,000 a month in June — and the increases show no sign of stopping.
Census Bureau: 3.8 million renters will likely be evicted in the next two months — why the rental crisis keeps getting worse