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Birth Certificates, Ballot Measures and a Failed Execution · The Roundup

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello, and welcome to the Lookout News Roundup, your weekly news podcast from the Desert Southwest, brought to you by the region's only LGBTQ accountability news outlet, and I'm your host, Joseph Darius Jaffari.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the first full week of October, and here are the headlines this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're starting in Arizona, where Federal Appeals Court has clarified how transgender people can change their sex marker on their birth certificates.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Ninth Circuit of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Arizona law provides a pathway for transgender people who haven't had surgery to change their birth certificates through a court order.
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  SPEAKER_00: The State Health Department must honor those orders.
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  SPEAKER_00: The ruling overturns an earlier injunction that had blocked the state from enforcing its policy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Staying in Arizona, the governor's race is dividing some Latter-day Saint women.
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  SPEAKER_00: ABC News reports some Republican and independent Mormon women say Andy Biggs's vote against certifying the 2020 election has pushed them away from his campaign and toward Democratic governor Katie Hobbes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Others say transgender issues are a major reason they support Biggs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hobbes' running mate, John Giles, is also a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona says she was raped while out repairing a campaign sign.
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  SPEAKER_00: Phoenix New Times reports Bernadette Green Placentia, who is challenging Republican Representative Abe Hamiday in the 8th Congressional District, says the attack happened in August in Sun City around 2 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is investigating.
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  SPEAKER_00: Green Placentia says she decided to go to public office in part to support other survivors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also in Phoenix, an investigation is taking a closer look at what happened inside an ICE facility on Central Avenue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Connecta, Arizona, in a story distributed by the Associated Press, found records showing more than 9,000 people were held at the facility over about 14 months.
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  SPEAKER_00: ICE calls it a processing facility rather than a detention center, but people who were held there described crowded cells and receiving one bean burrito every six hours.
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  SPEAKER_00: ICE disputes that account, saying detainees receive three meals a day and medical care.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now to Colorado, where voters will decide on two measures targeting transgender youth in November.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Colorado Sun profiled Aaron Lee, the Wellington mother behind the measures.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proposition 134 would restrict transgender students from participating on school sports teams based on sex as defined by the measure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proposition 135 would prohibit certain gender-related surgeries for minors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Supporters say the measures protect children, while opponents say they would harm transgender youth.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of Colorado's ongoing LGBTQ legal barriers is headed to the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: Supreme Court.
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  SPEAKER_00: The justices will hear arguments November 3rd from Catholic preschools that want to participate in Colorado's Universal Preschool Program while being exempt from the program's non-discrimination requirements involving LGBTQ children and families.
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  SPEAKER_00: The schools argue those requirements conflict with their religious beliefs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Colorado Medicaid coverage changed this week for thousands of legal immigrants.
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  SPEAKER_00: Colorado Public Radio reports about 5,900 legal immigrants, including refugees and people granted asylum, lost Medicaid coverage October 1st because of changes included in last year's federal tax and spending law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Advocates say many people are confused about the changes and that some are already skipping medical care because they can no longer afford it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now to the national news in Tennessee, an execution went very differently than the state intended.
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  SPEAKER_00: Krista Pike survived an attempted lethal injection last week after receiving two doses of the execution drug.
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  SPEAKER_00: Her lawyers said she was hospitalized in critical condition afterward.
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  SPEAKER_00: The governor has now paused executions in Tennessee for the rest of the year and ordered an outside review of the state's execution procedures.
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  SPEAKER_00: The state's prison chief also plans to resign.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in South Texas, some immigrants held at an ICE detention center are refusing to eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Marshall Project reports 11 people, including 10 Iranians and one Turkish man, began a hunger strike September 29th at a detention facility in Raymondville.
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  SPEAKER_00: They say their demand is to be moved out of the Fifth Circuit, where courts have allowed the government to hold some immigrants without bond hearings.
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  SPEAKER_00: ICE did not respond to requests from the Marshall Project.
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  SPEAKER_00: And finally, the Trump administration is facing another legal fight over deportations to countries where migrants have no previous ties.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Intercept reports more than 25,000 people who have been deported to so-called third countries under agreements with the United States.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that policy unlawful.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow the deportations to continue.
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  SPEAKER_00: One recent ICE flight traveled to two African countries, although it remains unclear who was a born.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's the roundup for this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, stay safe, stay informed, and look out for each other.