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Kentucky’s attorney general says federal law doesn’t require taxpayers to fund gender re-assignment surgeries for transgender inmates in state custody. Republican AG Russell Coleman issued an opinion on Thursday, calling the idea “absurd.”

Critics say the law puts trans youth at risk of rejection, while proponents say parents have a right to know if their children ask to go by other names or pronouns at school. In recent years, Tennessee has passed other laws prohibiting trans youth from using the school bathroom or playing on the sports team that aligns with their gender identity.

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals denied another request to block Kentucky and Tennessee bans on gender-affirming care for minors while the court reviews a legal challenge to the laws. A final decision in the case is expected later this month.

SB 150 also limits discussion of gender identity and sexuality in schools, bans use of bathrooms that align with a transgender student's gender and prevents schools from recommending or requiring teachers use the pronouns that match a student’s gender.

Supporters of trans kids being able to get puberty blockers and hormone therapy argued that it is safe, necessary health care that's backed by every major medical group.

Identity politics and culture war talking points were again at the forefront during the annual Fancy Farm picnic in far western Kentucky Saturday, as the state’s fall campaign season unofficially kicked off in the small Graves County community.

The ban was briefly blocked by a district court judge, but he reversed his decision a couple of weeks ago.

The LGBTQ+ Truck Driver Network is working to recruit and support drivers as the U.S. trucking industry battles a growing driver shortage.

After months of discussion, a policy committee landed Monday night on two options for the board to choose between: one which begrudgingly complies with the anti-trans law known as Senate Bill 150, and another which would put Kentucky’s largest district in open defiance with state lawmakers in Frankfort.

U.S. states with laws restricting what bathrooms transgender kids can use in public schools are wrestling with how those laws will be enforced. At least 10 states, including Kentucky, have enacted such laws and transgender, nonbinary, and gender-noncomforming people expect states to rely on what they call vigilante enforcement by private individuals.