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Steve Cohen: “Those standards have been in place for a long time. They are not new. What is new is this recent massive overreach by…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2023
Those standards have been in place for a long time. They are not new. What is new is this recent massive overreach by State lawmakers to ban medical care for transgender youth.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen criticizes state laws banning medical care for transgender youth as an overreach.

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