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Arkansas lawmakers enact transgender youth treatment ban

by Andrew DeMILLO
| April 6, 2021 3:10 PM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday made the state the first to ban gender confirming treatments and surgery for transgender youth, enacting the prohibition over the governor's objections.

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