‘This Is Not a Rare Story’: Friends of Jay Lee Seek Truth, Justice for Missing Oxford Man
Since the murder of Jay Lee, who went missing in Oxford, Miss., in July 2022, friends and family are working to ensure he is remembered correctly.
Since the murder of Jay Lee, who went missing in Oxford, Miss., in July 2022, friends and family are working to ensure he is remembered correctly.
A 17-year-old transgender girl missed her graduation at Harrison Central High School on Saturday after a federal judge allowed the school to prohibit her from wearing a dress under her gown and ordered her to wear traditional male attire instead.
The family of a 17-year-old transgender Harrison Central High School senior is suing in federal court after school district officials told her she will have to wear male attire to her graduation Saturday or will not be allowed to participate in the occasion.
Mississippi could ban digital books that state law defines as “sexually oriented,” including books with depictions of “homosexuality” and “lesbianism,” from public and school libraries after a majority in the Mississippi House approved an amended version of Senate Bill No. 2346 on Wednesday.
Young transgender Mississippians can no longer receive standard treatments, such as puberty blockers or hormone therapy, after Gov. Tate Reeves signed the REAP Act into law Tuesday afternoon.
Blake Case, an advisory board member of the LGBTQ Fund of Mississippi, writes that during this session, Mississippi legislators should focus on supporting transgender and nonbinary youth with needed resources instead of “targeting these young people with harmful legislation that will threaten their mental health.”
The “Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures (REAP) Act,” would prohibit standard treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking drugs by barring public funds from going to “any entity, organization or individual that provides gender transition procedures to a person under eighteen years of age.”
“Some of the Supreme Court’s most important upcoming cases focus on the future of affirmative action, equal treatment of LGBTQ people, and the control of election laws,” Morgan Marietta writes. “The court will hear the cases in the fall and then likely issue rulings in spring 2023.”
The Mississippi State Department of Health has expanded eligibility for the two-dose monkeypox vaccine for those at high risk. As of Friday, the agency had identified 48 cases in the state, including three new ones that day, but no deaths so far.
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