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Meeting date/time:
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6/28/2023
2:00 PM
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Minutes status:
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Final
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Meeting location:
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Cook County Building, Board Room,
118 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois
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23-3583
| 1 | | | Committee Minutes | COMMITTEE MINUTES
Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 05/24/2023 | approve | Pass |
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23-2007
| 1 | | A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE
A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE
GENDER AFFIRMING CARE | Resolution | PROPOSED RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE
WHEREAS, gender affirming care is crucial for trans and gender diverse children and adults to thrive, grow, and live to their fullest potential; and
WHEREAS, gender affirming care encompasses a range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity when it conflicts with the gender they were assigned at birth; and
WHEREAS, gender affirming care has a great effect on the safety of trans and non-conforming children and adults as studies have shown a significant decrease in suicidal ideation when gender affirming care is provided; and
WHEREAS, decisions about gender-affirming care should be properly made without government intervention through shared decision-making between the patient, their family; and
WHEREAS, 29 of the leading medical groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Nurses, The Endocrine Society and the American Medical Association recognize the medical necessity of gend | accept as substituted | Pass |
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23-2007
| 1 | | A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE
A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE
GENDER AFFIRMING CARE | Resolution | PROPOSED RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF ACCESS TO GENDER AFFIRMING CARE
WHEREAS, gender affirming care is crucial for trans and gender diverse children and adults to thrive, grow, and live to their fullest potential; and
WHEREAS, gender affirming care encompasses a range of social, psychological, behavioral, and medical interventions designed to support and affirm an individual’s gender identity when it conflicts with the gender they were assigned at birth; and
WHEREAS, gender affirming care has a great effect on the safety of trans and non-conforming children and adults as studies have shown a significant decrease in suicidal ideation when gender affirming care is provided; and
WHEREAS, decisions about gender-affirming care should be properly made without government intervention through shared decision-making between the patient, their family; and
WHEREAS, 29 of the leading medical groups including the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Nurses, The Endocrine Society and the American Medical Association recognize the medical necessity of gend | recommend for approval as substituted | Pass |
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23-3023
| 1 | | | Resolution | PROPOSED RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF NON-CONFORMING GENDER EXPRESSION
WHEREAS, non-conforming gender expression and dress have been around since the beginning of human history; and
WHEREAS, gender norms are ever-changing and based on media trends, economics, society, and culture; and
WHEREAS, policing or prescribing non-conforming gender expression discriminates against people who do not fit in these norms and violates their freedom of expression; and
WHEREAS, legal enforcement of gender norms in the mid-20th Century led to raids on Gay and Lesbian bars and gathering spaces, leading to physical violence, sexual harassment and assault; and
WHEREAS, the municipalities of Bridgeview, Burbank, Justice, Lynwood, and Melrose Park still have laws on the books criminalizing non-conforming gender expression; and
WHEREAS, the state of Tennessee enacted SB 3 which criminalizes non-conforming gender expression, bans it from many private and all public areas, and categorizes it as solely “adult entertainment”; and
WHEREAS, since 2020 legislative bodies in states | recommend for approval | Pass |
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