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Advocacy Groups Launch Campaign Against Ex-Gay Therapy
The new campaign, a joint venture between Truth Wins Out and the Southern Poverty Law Center, will include a series of committee meetings nationwide to bring greater awareness to the harms and deceit associated with conversion therapy.
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More than 65 state organizations are urging UW Health and Children’s Wisconsin to resume gender-affirming care for minors.

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The measure would bar federally funded civics and history programs from promoting what the bill calls “gender ideology” and “discriminatory equity ideology.”

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