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Residents urge Lane County to adopt sanctuary protections and defend trans health care; county schedules draft review
Summary
Multiple speakers asked the Lane County Board to adopt formal protections for transgender and immigrant residents and warned that attacks on trans health care would set precedents affecting other medical care. County staff said listening sessions occurred and a draft will be brought to the board on April 8.
Several speakers at the March 18 public-comment period urged Lane County to adopt a formal protection statement — described by commenters as a "sanctuary" promise — for transgender and immigrant communities and to defend access to gender-affirming health care.
Jacob Griffin and Anna Lardner framed the issue as a protection of parental and patient rights; Griffin said "no government should ever step in in the place of a…
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