• Oregon mandates insurance coverage for gender surgeries, including for minors, based on WPATH guidelines, while not requiring coverage for detransition procedures

• Barrhead, Alberta voted to ban pride flags and rainbow crosswalks from public property with a 57% majority

• CDC's 2025 vaccine schedule recommends 36 doses by age two and over 70 doses by age eighteen

• Conservative MP Jamil Jivani highlights 112 burned or vandalized churches in Canada since 2021 while Parliament displays Christmas tree

• Syracuse judge Felicia Pitts-Davis faced backlash for arranging alternative judge for same-sex ceremony

• LPGA implements new policy restricting male-bodied golfers from women's tournaments starting 2025

• Canada plans to send confiscated civilian firearms to Ukraine, with indigenous weapons exempted

• EPA makes first climate-related arrest for "smuggling potent greenhouse gases," with $1.7 billion in penalties and 480 open investigations

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