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GOP lawmakers in West Virginia are pushing to overturn an exception that allows transgender youth at risk of self-harm or suicide to receive gender-affirming care.
Minnesota voters send a mean-spirited ballot initiative packing and leave their constitution unsullied.
As voters head to the polls in North Carolina today, turnout is expected to be high, which leaves opponents of Amendment One, the constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and other unions, hopeful for an upset victory despite polling that indicates easy passage of the measure.
A North Carolina congressman who opposes a state anti-gay marriage amendment will now cosponsor federal legislation to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
The antigay Virginia marriage amendment may have passed with 57% of the vote in 2006, but it also prodded thousands of LGBT activists to action, laying the groundwork for the presidential election in 2008.
House Republicans are pressing for a Tuesday vote on a federal constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, forcing lawmakers to take a stand just months before mid-term elections.
An emotionally charged debate over whether the Maryland constitution should be amended to ban same-sex marriage began Tuesday in the legislature.
