Trans youth, who have repeatedly traveled to their state capitols to testify against the bills, said the political debates about their lives have worsened their mental health and anxiety.Transylvanian invasions of Hungary (1619–1621, 1623–1624, 1626) Some advocates have called on people in power to defy the laws, and the district attorney in Nashville has said he would not enforce one of the bathroom bills. These court battles could overturn or temporarily block the laws, but families have already reported fleeing their states to protect their kids. “It was unconscionable.”Ĭivil rights groups have begun filing lawsuits challenging the bills, some of which are scheduled to go into effect in July. “State legislatures prioritized mean-spirited, dangerous and unnecessary bills targeting transgender kids at a moment when states are still recovering from the pandemic,” said Hannah Willard, the vice-president of government affairs with Freedom for All Americans. Montana passed a law banning trans people from correcting the gender marker on their birth certificates if they haven’t undergone affirming surgery. Another requires that if businesses allow trans people to use the correct bathrooms, they have to post a sign that says, “This facility maintains a policy of allowing the use of restrooms by either biological sex, regardless of the designation on the restroom.” One prohibits trans kids from using bathrooms and locker rooms at school that match their gender. ‘No goals here except discrimination’įive states also considered anti-trans bathroom bills, with Tennessee ultimately passing two separate laws. Advocates noted that youth do not receive hormones pre-puberty and that this law would not disrupt existing care, but was nonetheless sending a hateful message. Tennessee later adopted a more narrow anti-trans medical bill, which prohibited hormone treatments for “prepubertal minors”. (Arkansas also passed a second sports-related law that creates an enforcement mechanism for its ban.)
Bills that more broadly ban trans kids from playing on the teams that match their gender were signed into law in Alabama, Montana and Tennessee. Sports bills limiting the access of trans girls to teams have been passed this year in Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi and West Virginia. The most common anti-trans proposals were focused on sports, many of them specifically seeking to ban trans girls from competing on girls’ teams. How do you fight a war on 100 fronts simultaneously?” The most common target: trans athletes
“There’s this relentlessness and exhaustion. “What we saw was unprecedented, and it was an avalanche,” said Jules Gill-Peterson, a professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and an expert on trans kids. While most legislative sessions have now ended and a majority of the bills failed, there are at least six anti-trans bills that remain active, in addition to the 13 laws that passed. The proposals have spanned 37 states, affecting nearly every region of the country, according to Freedom for All Americans, a not-for-profit that has tracked the bills and compiled data for the Guardian.
The results could be catastrophic for vulnerable children, advocates and affected families say, given that the bills target healthcare, recreation and school life, with policies that intensify discrimination and exclusion of trans kids. This extraordinary legislative attack on trans rights has primarily targeted children and young adults and has dramatically escalated over the last several months, establishing anti-trans policy as a signature priority for state Republicans. It was just one of 13 anti-trans bills conservative lawmakers in the US passed this year, and one of more than 110 bills that were proposed – by far the largest number in US history. On the first day of Pride month, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, signed a law banning transgender girls from participating on girls’ sports teams in middle school through college.
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