Podcast: Gender affirming care in Maine, in the face of right-wing hostility

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Podcast: Gender affirming care in Maine, in the face of right-wing hostility

This week, Ben and Esther are joined by the Beacon’s Dan Neumann to talk about gender affirming care in Maine and a bill to protect Maine medical practitioners from prosecution by other states. The bill, LD 227, is at the center of a right-wing misinformation panic that has drawn in local neo-Nazis and resulted in a bomb threat against lawmakers last week. Esther and Ben also discuss the new $108 million dollar surplus in state funds and how the…