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Feb 2023
28m 8s

Transgender Youth Care Targeted

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Sasha Buchert, senior attorney at Lambda Legal, discusses lawmakers in more than two dozen states weighing legislation that aims to restrict or ban access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, prompting legal challenges from LGBTQ rights groups that allege the bills are discriminatory.
James Shreve, a partner at Thompson Coburn LLP, discusses the Illinois Supreme Court ruling that claims under the Biometric Information Privacy Act, accrue at each violation, opening up businesses to massive damages.
June Grasso hosts.

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