Tess Vrbin / Arkansas Advocate
ReporterTess Vrbin is a reporter for the nonprofit news organization Arkansas Advocate. She previously worked for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette where she reported on low-income housing and tenants' rights, and won awards for her coverage of 2021 flooding and tornado damage in rural Arkansas. She previously covered local government for The Commercial Dispatch in Mississippi and state government for the Columbia Daily Tribune in Missouri. A Midwesterner by birth, she graduated from the University of Missouri's journalism school in 2019.
Arkansas Advocate is part of States Newsroom, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit supported by grants and a coalition of donors and readers. The Advocate retains full editorial independence.
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Former Gov. Asa Hutchinson supported blockage of a law he signed banning government mask mandates. -
Leaving the state to receive their children’s hormones would be an emotional and financial burden, federal trial plaintiffs say
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The ACLU brought the lawsuit on behalf of the families of four transgender teenagers. Proceedings are expected to continue through Friday.
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A federal trial is being heard in Little Rock regarding the state's currently blocked ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender minors.
