Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order aimed at creating a statewide asylum for transgender people seeking health care. The order also orders agencies not to comply with other states’ orders for arrests in relation to gender-related care.
being brought in the state legislature to establish Minnesota as a “trans refuge” state, aims to protect access to gender-affirming care in the state. It also ensures that people traveling to Minnesota from other states to seek such care are protected, and orders agencies not to comply with other states’ orders for arrests in relation to gender-related care.
‘While gender affirming health care services remain legal and protected in Minnesota, other states have curtailed access to, or even criminalized, this care,” the order says. “These actions pose a grave threat to the health of LGBTQIA+ individuals by preventing them from affirming their gender identities through safe and scientifically proven treatments. In Minnesota, we value LGBTQIA+ community members, and we safeguard their rights.
Walz said that his order is about protecting trans people. “We want every Minnesotan to grow up feeling safe, valued, protected, celebrated, and free to exist as their authentic versions of themselves,”, a Democrat. “Protecting and supporting access to gender affirming health care is essential to being a welcoming and supportive state.”
The corresponding legislation, if passed, would ensure that such protections remain in place after Walz is no longer governor. It was written by Democratic state Rep. Leigh Finke, the first openly trans legislator in the state, and would similarly prohibit state courts from complying with other states’ orders to prosecute trans people seeking gender-related care.
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