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Stark political divides are overshadowing a meeting this week of the nation's governors

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Conservative lawmakers have passed a flurry of bills this year directed at transgender youth, including measures that bar classroom discussion of gender identity, block access to healthcare to help young people transition, and restrict participation in sports.

GOP-dominated state legislature could override veto, while LGBT+ advocates argue only one openly transgender student athlete plays on a school sports team in the state

The psychedelics legislative landscape continues to move forward with Hazel Park, Michigan enacting decriminalization measures for naturally-produced psychedelic molecules, becoming the third city in the state to do so after Ann Arbor and Detroit. In Utah, Governor Cox signed a psychedelics research bill into law and positive legislation around psilocybin is continuing…

Republican lawmakers in Utah on Friday voted to override Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto on a bill banning transgender student-athletes from competing in sports aligned with their gender identity.

Governor urged ‘kindness, mercy and compassion’ as LGBT+ advocates warn against legislation’s compounded harms against already-vulnerable children

Utah’s Republican lawmakers were preparing for a Friday push to override Gov. Spencer Cox’s veto of legislation banning transgender youth athletes from playing on girls teams

‘I want them to live’

Republican governors in two states this week rejected legislation to ban transgender players from girls sports

Both argue that the bills open the state up to costly lawsuits for very little, if any, gain.