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Rep. Noelle Kahaian’s bill focuses on their parents and caregivers. The first-term Republican frames her newly introduced legislation as providing “protections for children who adopt an identity that differs from their sex.’’ It would establish that parents, foster parents and kinship caregivers have the right to raise their children in accordance with their biological sex — even if the child identifies differently. The proposed measure specifically safeguards caregivers’ “religious or sincerely held beliefs.”