South Carolina

The bills would make it harder – or even ban – presenting books in class that talk about LGBTQ people.

A man is still forced to register as a sex offender due to a 2001 sodomy charge, even though SCOTUS overturned such laws in 2003.

As with many other trans people violently killed, reports deadnamed and misgendered Marquiisha Lawrence following her death.

As head of Alliance Defending Freedom, Michael Farris focuses on diminishing our rights, but he’s also found time to engage in the right’s anti-democracy “Stop the Steal” push.

Thomas Hardin is believed to be the first confirmed victim of a couple that went on a month-long shooting spree around South Carolina and Missouri. She once lived with one of the suspects.

Republicans all over the country are parroting lines about transgender girls ending school sports. But they can’t even name one time it happened in their states.

A handful of Democrats in deep red states have joined forces with anti-trans extremists to support measures harming trans youth.

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.

South Carolina Christian conservatives complained that a hate crimes bill about violent crimes and vandalism could “threaten religious liberty.”

From school sports to putting doctors in prison for treating trans patients, lawmakers in these states want to make people’s lives harder.