Four months into this year’s state legislative sessions, more bills targeting LGBTQ rights — particularly transgender rights — have been introduced and become law than at any other time in U.S. history, according to a Washington Post analysis.
Iowa banned transgender female athletes from participating in high school and college sports with a law that also enables cisgender female athletes to sue school districts if they don’t comply.
Gov. Kim Reynolds echoed these sentiments last month when she signed the transgender sports bill, saying it wasBehind the remarkable success of the bills is a network of conservative religious groups who have coordinated to draft bills and lobby state lawmakers with the express goal of rolling back the rights that LGBTQ Americans have gained in the past decade.
Kent Syler, a political science professor at Middle Tennessee State University, said fomenting fear around culture war issues — then promising to take action against these perceived threats — has become a winning formula for conservative Republicans. It also distracts voters from more intractable concerns“It’s a whole lot easier to say you’re fixing some culture issue than it is to fix a real government problem, because we don’t really have easy answer for those things,” Syler said.
Troy Williams, executive director of Equality Utah, an LGBTQ advocacy group, said the negotiations were made possible from earlier work advocates did with Republicans and the Mormon Church to pass an anti-discrimination law in 2015.“It was this historic moment when we worked to balance LGBTQ rights and religious rights.
In North Dakota, primary challenges from the right helped usher in more conservative legislatures this year that backed a historic wave of bills. North Dakota state Rep. Brandon Prichard said conservative lawmakers have learned that a failure to not back these measures will end their political careers in the state.
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