Anti-trans bills

Both laws “fix” a problem that doesn’t exist. This is about pandering to the worst of us.

“I am striving to pour as much love, strength and support as I can into the next generation.”

“My daughter’s mental health and wellness is far more important than your child’s medal or record.”

Republican lawmakers have been writing exceptions into anti-trans laws, banning doctors from treating trans youth while explicitly allowing them to operate on intersex youth.

They’re made from recycled copies of proposed anti-trans legislation from around the nation.

Proposals submitted include bans on trans youth from receiving healthcare, talk therapy, or playing sports. Several Democrats have refused to take part and face threats of being arrested.

House Bill 1182, which called for signs reading “This facility has a policy of allowing the use of restrooms by either biological sex,” will not go in effect while a lawsuit against it proceeds.

This year’s march had a clear emphasis on defending trans youth and trans people of color, who are facing a record number of anti-LGBTQ legislation across the country.

While landlords, employers, and working parents suffer, Patrick is focused on 13-year-old gymnasts and Facebook pages.

Montana has now made it illegal to mention gender identity or sexual orientation in schools unless parents opt-in to it in advance. Montana also became the seventh state to ban trans youth in sports.

“I’ll veto this discriminatory bill if it gets to my desk,” Gov. Tom Wolf unequivocally stated. The Republican-majority legislature is unlikely to obtain a veto-proof vote to override him.

GOP lawmakers pushing the anti-trans agenda have neglected to speak to trans people or their friends and family. Here’s just one story told in 3 minutes.

Bills across the country targeting the trans community are failing.

Danica Roem explains that Republicans are pushing anti-trans bills in part to prove to each other that they are not “insufficiently conservative.”

“Trans kids deserve the same opportunity that made my NFL career possible.”

Now that they have overridden one veto from the governor, the Arkansas legislature is not letting up on the gas pedal – and is determined to make the state the nation’s leader in anti-trans legislation.

President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland could consider taking legal action, the White House stated. But they’re not announcing any decisions – yet.

Trans rights advocates celebrated when Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed this bill yesterday. The legislature overrode his veto today.

Louisiana Sen. Mike Fesi proposed a bill to require a parent signature for gender-affirming health care to fix a problem that doesn’t exist.

The new Assistant Secretary of Health said that “I think that people fear what they don’t understand.”