Wes Moore expresses more support for Trans Marylanders
Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed an executive order this week clarifying how state agencies can protect gender-affirming health care.
order She signed the petition during a Pride Month reception with LGBTQIA leaders at the Governor’s Mansion, calling on state officials to protect Maryland people and organizations involved in such care.
The report states that state agencies may not provide information “to facilitate investigations or proceedings that seek to impose civil or criminal liability or professional sanctions” on the provider or recipient. .
That is, unless there is a court order, state officials cannot provide information to authorities in other states who may prosecute patients and medical professionals who engage in gender-affirming care, which is legal here.
Maryland has more than 94,000 transgender and nonbinary residents, and the state must “protect their rights,” the executive order said.
“Where other states deprive residents of access to, and in some cases criminalize, gender-affirming treatment, such treatment is protected in Maryland,” the order reads. It is written.
Earlier this year, state legislatures passed legislation to expand the types of gender-affirming care covered by Medicaid, the federal state insurance program for low-income and disabled people. Moore, a Democrat, signed the bill. He also celebrated International Trans Visibility Day in the state legislature, a first for the Maryland government.
Baltimore Democrats stalled in election of new delegates
Baltimore Democrats have sent the two names to Gov. Wes Moore to consider the vacant House of Representatives seat after failing to reach an agreement on the nomination.
They are former state representative Angela Gibson and attorney Malcolm Ruff. Moore needs to fill vacancies in District 41, which includes Baltimore’s north, west and southwest neighborhoods.
Tony Bridges, the district’s president, resigned this spring to take over as Assistant Secretary of Transportation for the Maryland Department of Transportation. The Democratic Central Committee of the City of Baltimore was then charged with electing new delegates.
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Eight Central Committee members representing the 41st District were in a stalemate between Ruff and Gibson in two rounds of voting on Thursday night.
The vote was 4-4, with committee member Gibson voting for himself. Commission rules stipulate that after a three-vote tie, both names will be sent to the governor. However, after two votes, the members agreed there was no need to hold it again.
rough, lawyer Murphy, an attorney at Falcon & Murphy Law Firm, told members in a public interview that he was a “loyal son of the city” who represented the interests of the Annapolis district well. He touted his own work testifying against a bill to protect home care workers and a bill to ban police from stopping vehicles simply because of the smell of marijuana. He has Bridges backing.
Gibson, a member of the Central Committee and a former city employee who served for many years, said she intends to be a “service leader” in her community. From 2017 until 2019 she was appointed to the House of Representatives She was elected to represent District 41, but failed in her attempt to complete her term as a delegate.
Is Tom Perez on his way to the White House?
Former Maryland gubernatorial candidate Tom Perez heads to a concert with the White House. The Washington Post reported this week.
The newspaper, citing two unnamed sources familiar with the move, said Perez would become a senior adviser and director of the Intergovernmental Affairs Bureau.
Perez, 61, has a long history of politics in both Maryland and Washington. He finished second to eventual winner Wes Moore in last year’s Democratic primary for governor.
A native of Buffalo, New York, he served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights during the Obama administration. During the Trump era, he chaired the Democratic National Committee. In the 2000s he served as State Labor Secretary and Montgomery County Representative.
City councilors will submit amendments to the mayor’s budget, but the amendments won’t be available to the public until next week
Baltimore City Hall’s budget hearing season ended Tuesday night, with the police department becoming the last city official to answer city council questions about the 2024 budget proposal.
City councilors had until noon Wednesday to submit Mayor Brandon Scott’s amendment. $4.4 billion budget plan.
For the first time in more than a century, city council members can not only slash items, but also move funds within a budget bill.
Lawmakers have submitted several amendments, but the Ways and Means Commission won’t release them until next week.
