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News (USA)
Tennessee passes bill requiring anti-trans signs on businesses with trans-inclusive restrooms
A bill passed the Tennessee legislature that would require bathroom facilities that trans people are allowed to use be designated as allowing use by “either biological sex.” It now goes to the governor’s desk.
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News (USA)
A massive trans flag billboard is giving kids hope & putting pressure on Alabama Republicans
It is the “largest trans flag that has ever flown over the state.”
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News (World)
Watch this trans health expert demolish a proposal to erase LGBTQ people in school
Teddy Cook gave a reality check on a proposal to block so-called “gender fluidity” promotion in education. “I’m sorry to tell you, I don’t think you spoke to any trans people when you were thinking about that definition.”
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News (USA)
Alabama is becoming the fifth state this year to ban trans youth from participating in sports
Alabama’s governor signed the ban on trans youth in sports, despite opponents warning that this could jeopardize the state’s future NCAA events.
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Life
This 14-year-old teen athlete is like any other kid. She just wants to play.
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.
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News (USA)
Elliot Page takes aim at “cruel” anti-trans movement by state lawmakers: “protect trans kids”
“I am thinking of my trans siblings and the collective pain that our community must endure to battle again and again for our right to exist,” wrote Page. Then he called for action.
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Politics
Danica Roem believes voting & running for office can combat the right’s anti-trans efforts
Danica Roem explains that Republicans are pushing anti-trans bills in part to prove to each other that they are not “insufficiently conservative.”
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Life
Former NFL player Ryan Russell takes strong stand for trans youth who want to play sports
“Trans kids deserve the same opportunity that made my NFL career possible.”
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Commentary
A short history of where all this anti-trans stuff came from & why you should be concerned
2024 could be “the first time in 20 years that LGBT issues have been centered in a presidential election,” according to one expert.
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News (USA)
Another anti-trans bill in Arkansas allows people that share bathrooms with trans people to sue
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.
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Politics
The White House states they “certainly can” consider challenging anti-trans laws
President Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland could consider taking legal action, the White House stated. But they’re not announcing any decisions – yet.
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News (USA)
Arkansas legislature now aims to ban trans people’s correct names & pronouns in schools
Fresh off overturning the Republican governor’s veto to enact one of the most anti-trans legislation in the country, Arkansas lawmakers now want to protect people who deliberately misgender and deadname others.
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Commentary
The religious right’s newest obsession
They’re targeting transgender people now, but it’s the same church, just a different pew.
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News (USA)
Republican wants to stop feds from letting trans youth get health care behind parents’ backs
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.
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Health and Wellness
Dr. Rachel Levine defends trans youth who are losing healthcare in GOP-led states
The new Assistant Secretary of Health said that “I think that people fear what they don’t understand.”
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News (USA)
An anti-trans GOP lawmaker tried to justify himself with “science.” He failed miserably.
Minnesota State Rep. Eric Lucero is not the sharpest crayon in the box.
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News (USA)
Arkansas becomes the first state to ban gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth
This is the third anti-LGBTQ bill passed in Arkansas this year and has been called “the single most extreme anti-trans law to ever pass through a state legislature.”
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Politics
This ad airing during the NCAA tournament names & shames lawmakers pushing anti-trans laws
The Human Rights Campaign aired a version of their ad during March Madness specifically shaming the governor of Arkansas.
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Commentary
There’s a close connection between the religious right’s anti-trans & anti-abortion efforts
The religious right is using the same tactics, for the same reasons, to stop medical treatment or sports for trans youth as it has against abortion providers.
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News (USA)
Mississippi Governor blames Biden for “encouraging transgenderism” as he signs anti-trans bill
Mississippi became the first state to pass a transgender sports ban this year, and apparently, it’s Biden’s fault?