Transgender Minnesota lawmaker pushes back on adult site age verification bill over fears of overreach
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Transgender Minnesota State Rep. Leigh Finke suggested some adult sites that could be swept up in an age verification bill could be "educational" for LGBTQ youth.
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"And you're a principal, you have LGBT students in your school, and we also know that they're not receiving sex education for queer kids," Finke added. "We know that prurient interest, could be for many people, the very existence of transgender kids. More and more people are saying there simply are no transgender kids. To transgender kids, that is a problem."
Finke was addressing Minnesota state Rep. Ben Bakeberg, who is an author of H.F. 1434, a bill that "would require websites where 25 percent or more of the webpages feature pornography to verify that a person seeking to access the website is 18 or older."
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