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(Jewish Group) LGBTQ youth face terrifying new legal threats. How should Jews respond?
LGBTQ youth face terrifying new legal threats. How should the Jewish community respond?Hayden Cohen, a trans high schooler from Houston, Texas, has found moments of queer joy in recent months.
They’ve baked rainbow cookies, distributed rainbow flags and decked their high school’s halls with rainbow stickers with friends in their gay-straight alliance.
But those kinds of moments, Cohen said, have lately become “the only things keeping people proud and out of the closet.”
LGBTQ rights are under a new wave of assault as Republican lawmakers have introduced hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills nationwide seeking to ban trans youth from playing sports, limit the extent to which teachers can discuss sexuality and gender in the classroom, and more. Perhaps most severely, a recent Texas directive categorized the delivery of gender-affirming care to trans youth as child abuse.
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