https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/hawaii-governor-signs-powerful-trans>After a three-year push, Hawai’i officially has implemented a shield law to explicitly protect providers and patients of gender-affirming care for the trans community.>House Bill 1875, also known as Act 059, was signed by Governor Josh Green—himself a physician—late last week. The bill explicitly adds gender-affirming care to its existing shield law, which broadly covered reproductive health, and established safeguards from “abusive litigation” coming from outside states.>Shield laws create “legal protections for patients, health care providers, and people assisting in the provision of certain health care in states where that care is legal from the reach of states with civil, criminal, and professional consequences related to that care,” according to the Center for Reproductive Health, Law and Policy at UCLA. For example, it means Hawai’i state actors may not aid out-of-state attacks—such as, say, through the extradition of health care providers—over lawful care rendered in Hawai’i.>“The legislature finds that the people of Hawai’i have a long tradition of protecting an individual’s right to privacy and bodily autonomy independently of, and more broadly than, the United States Constitution,” the bill reads. It emphasized that the right to privacy and bodily autonomy extends to minors.
>>43814062Hawaii should be its own countryThere is no reason for it not to be
>>43814095They don't have enough resources to independently support the infrastructure that they currently have as a part of the USA.
>>43814597that can be said for almost every island nation
>>43814623No, most island nations about the size of Hawaii and smaller don't have Honolulu tier infrastructure. Indonesia and Malaysia are quite big but even then they're actually Indian shithole tier outside of their largest cities.
>>43814654okay
>>43814062BASEDwe can all stop tolerating faith
>>43815831Majority of chuds starting with millenial ones are atheists
>>43816138there are plenty of atheists and generally non-religious types expressing faith in an individual or ideology (or really anything they imagine, fear, want, or are told) on the basis of unfalsifiable or self-contradicting claims
