Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has delivered a setback to Native American tribes in Maine seeking greater sovereignty.
The Maine House has voted in favor of a bill to ensure 16- and 17-year-olds can receive gender-affirming hormone therapy without parental consent in some situations.
There have been lengthy lawsuits even when the law, in the attorney general’s view, is clearly spelled out under the settlement. On Thursday, Mills urged the tribes, the attorney general and other parties to work together to craft a better proposal that is “clear, thoroughly vetted, and well understood by all parties.”
“With all due respect to the chief executive, the time has come and passed for us to rectify our laws and honor the inherent sovereignty of the Wabanaki Nations,” he said in a statement. The Wabanaki tribes are the Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Mi’kmaq and Maliseet in Maine.
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