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By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, May 23, 2015 At Basic Rights Oregon and other gay rights organizations, they were breaking out the bubbly Thursday – the bubbly press releases, that is – as Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law HB 2307, a ban on state-licensed mental health professionals using “conversion therapy” on […]
By Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press, Jan. 16, 2013 Regulators in Oregon and California have quietly directed some health insurance companies to stop denying coverage for transgender patients because of their gender identity. The states aren’t requiring coverage of specific medical treatments. But they told some private insurance companies they must pay for a transgender […]
From The Guerrilla Angel Report by Lexie Cannes, February 18, 2012 And these appointments occurred quietly, seemingly without anyone batting an eye. And this is how it should be done — selected without public attention to gender identity or sexual orientation. I’m making note of here to measure how far we’ve come, at least here […]
Broad cross section of Portland groups calling for public involvement in police union talks and other reforms The Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform is sponsoring a rally and march in at Pioneer Square in downtown Portland starting at 11:00a.m. on Saturday, September 25. In less than a year, Portland police have […]
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