LGBT activists say new bills target transgender youth
(WorldNews Health)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - At the urging of conservative advocacy groups, Republican legislators in more than a dozen states are promoting bills that focus on transgender young people. One batch of bills would bar doctors from providing them certain gender-related medical treatment; another batch would bar trans students from participating on school sports teams of the gender they identify with. The proposed laws, if enacted, `would bring devastating harms to the transgender community,` said Chase Strangio, a transgender-rights lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union. He warned that the medical bans -- now pending in Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota...