Three days before a 17-year-old girl was scheduled to receive a double mastectomy, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge blocked the surgery. The teen’s mother sought the court order, saying doctors pushed her daughter into cross-sex hormones and breast removal surgery.

Since January, children in Washington state ages 13 and up can obtain confidential treatment for mental health conditions and gender dysphoria using their parent’s insurance plan—without their parents’ consent.

Washington state voters approved a sex education referendum on Tuesday despite a historic parent-led fight against it. The mandate is set to take effect at K-12 public schools later this school year. Referendum 90, Washington’s only statewide ballot measure this election cycle, marks the first time voters have directly made a decision on sex education. The vote was split about 60-40 by Wednesday.

Sandy Burress, 62, of Santa Rosa, Calif., died three days before the San Francisco Bay Area instituted the nation’s first shelter-in-place order on March 16. Eight months later, with the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, Sandy’s widow, Cyndi Howell-Burress, and the couple’s five adult children still have not held a memorial service.

A billboard at a prominent Los Angeles intersection states, “Your child is learning about gender identity in school. Puberty is not a medical condition.” It encourages parents to read Abigail Shrier’s recent book, Irreversible Damage: How the Transgender Craze is Seducing Our Daughters. A group called Concerned Parents paid for the billboard and set up a GoFundMe campaign to fund similar messages in other major cities.

Fourteen years to the day after becoming a bishop in New York, the Rt. Rev. William Love is resigning over questions of Biblical sexuality. A disciplinary panel on Oct. 2 concluded Love violated church rules by advising his clergy not to officiate at the wedding ceremonies of same-sex couples.

On Tuesday night, Fostering Hope New England hosted a virtual training session for caregivers of foster children who have experienced severe trauma. The two-hour training, which attracted 100 attendees, is one way the Rhode Island–based nonprofit works to meet needs within the foster care community.