trans rights
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Students and community turn out for their trans peers
Trans healthcare panel at Middlebury College highlights local impact of Trump executive orders on real human beings.
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Letter to the editor: Message from trans individual really hit home
I thought I had a reasonable understanding of what life as a trans person was like until I read the email below. This message came to me via…
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Ways of Seeing: Celebrating all the rainbows
It’s okay to have questions about queerness and trans identities. Most of us have been raised to understand the world in terms of a gender binary.
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Guest editorial: Vergennes anti-trans talk included blatant falsehoods
A 2018 study by Lane et al. of gender-affirming procedures performed on insured patients between 2009 and 2015 found only a 5.8% rate of complications across all gender-affirming surgeries.
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Letter to the editor: Story on LGBTQ+ issue needed more balance
The article about Tara Jentink and her views on parents’ rights was disturbing.
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Jentink shares her views on parents’ rights
The woman who led the effort to bring an anti-trans activist to speak at Vergennes Union High School last week says she’ll continue to be active in parental…
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Community Forum: Heyer presented truth with love
Walt Heyer, de-transitioner and international speaker on the risks and complications of so-called “gender-affirming care,” presented truth with love at Vergennes Union High School last week that pierced…
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Letter to the editor: Freedom of expression is bedrock of our democracy
Those who attended these events and those who read the accounts in the Independent might conclude that there is an irreparable divide between our neighbors who support young…
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Group hosts anti-trans talk at VUHS
More than five dozen people gathered inside the Vergennes Union High School auditorium on Tuesday to hear Walt Heyer, an advocate against gender-affirming healthcare for youth.