'Right-wing state lawmakers are obsessed with taking away the rights of trans people and we're obsessed with knocking them out of public office.' AgendaPAC
with curtailing the rights of transgender people, with U.S. state legislators proposing more than 300 pieces of legislation targeting the community over the past two years.since 2020, with 86% of the bills focusing on transgender youths.
"Right-wing state lawmakers are obsessed with taking away the rights of trans people and we're obsessed with knocking them out of public office,""Frankly, I really do think that the end goal is to ban trans-affirming medical care, period... which should scare people a lot more than it does because access to gender-affirming care is fundamentally an issue of bodily autonomy.
Fifteen percent of the bills have become law, including total bans on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youths in Alabama and Arkansas; bans on students using bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender rather than sex assigned at birth in Tennessee, Alabama, and Oklahoma; and similar restrictions for school sports teams in at least 19 states.
Some of the proposals are based in—and threaten to perpetuate—misinformation about transgender people, including a Tennessee law which bars medical professionals from providing hormone treatments to prepubescent children. Experts on transgender health only recommend hormone treatment once a child has entered puberty.
"Frankly, I really do think that the end goal is to ban trans-affirming medical care, period... which should scare people a lot more than it does because access to gender-affirming care is fundamentally an issue of bodily autonomy," Alex Petrovnia, president of the Trans Formations Project, toldLawmakers in more than half of states have sought to restrict access to gender-affirming care, despite evidence that such bans are harmful to the safety of young transgender people.
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