The effects of anti-trans legislation -- and the rhetoric that accompanies it -- is often seen in classrooms and schools across the country, where students such as Silverman combat discrimination ...Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday signed into law two bills targeting the rights of transgender people in the state, including a ban on gender-affirming care for minors and a ...Mar 31, 2023 · Zoom in: The activist groups' imprint on hundreds of anti-trans bills in legislatures is clear, according to the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center. The groups have provided witnesses, model legislation, and legal support to defend any measures that become law, said R.G. Cravens, senior research analyst with SPLC's Intelligence Project. Nearly 240 anti-LGBTQ bills filed in 2022 so far, most of them targeting trans people. The annual number of anti-LGBTQ bills to have been filed has skyrocketed over the past several years, from 41 ...Dec 30, 2023 · Over the course of 2023, Republican state legislators around the nation filed more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills, many targeting the ability of trans youth to access gender-affirming care, participate in sports, or use school bathrooms and locker rooms. Republican members of Congress have also tried to elevate similar bills at the national level ... A group of more than 130 LGBTQ advocates and organizations released a coordinated but separate statement on Wednesday accusing the Times of coverage that elevates harmful and false information ...A Divided Community. The “transphobe” label came after Navratilova declared that transgender women are men who “decide to be female,” and inflamed divisions within the LGBTQ community ...In the last few years states have advanced a record number of bills that attack LGBTQ rights, especially transgender youth. The ACLU is tracking these attacks and working with our national network of affiliates to support LGBTQ people everywhere. While more states every year work to pass laws to protect LGBTQ people, state legislatures are ...A grim detail stays on my mind: at least 14 transgender people have been killed by violent means in 2022, putting it on track to be the deadliest year yet for trans Americans. On top of the grisly ...Author J.K. Rowling reads from Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone at the 2010 Easter Egg Roll at the White House.. British author J. K. Rowling, writer of Harry Potter and other Wizarding World works, has garnered attention for her support of the Labour Party under Gordon Brown and her criticism of the party under Jeremy Corbyn, as well as her …Anti-trans laws Gender transition Students in Des Moines protesting an anti-trans law signed by Republican Governor Kim Reynolds in 2022. As many as 13 U.S. states banned gender affirming health care for transgender youth in the early-2020s. Treatment for adults. These states make it easy for trans adults to sue their doctors: Anti-Trans Bills. These measures target transgender and nonbinary people for discrimination, such as by barring or criminalizing healthcare for trans youth, barring access to the use of appropriate facilities like restrooms, restricting trans students’ ability to fully participate in school and sports, allowing religiously-motivated ...Jun 28, 2022 · Plurality of adults say views on gender identity issues are changing too quickly. Many Americans are not comfortable with the pace of change that’s occurring around issues involving gender identity. Some 43% say views on issues related to people who are transgender and nonbinary are changing too quickly. About one-in-four (26%) say things are ... December 21, 2022, 4:00am. It was 2014, and Gavin Grimm had just told his mom that he was transgender. Gavin was almost 15, and about to start his sophomore year at a …As of 2023, twenty US states have banned at least some medical care for transgender children, rejecting medically accepted best practices. These bans put the health and rights of transgender ...May 4, 2023 · Corporate America is staying quiet on anti-trans bills. North Carolina faced mass corporate backlash and lost billions after passing a so-called "bathroom bill" that banned transgender people from using bathrooms aligning with their gender identity. That was in 2016. Why it matters: Republicans today don't seem to fear the same economic ... Anti-trans laws play on fears that children may irreversibly alter their bodies and then come to regret it. But such scare tactics ignore reality for the vast majority of people who receive treatment.Still, Gaines described her views as “pro-woman,” not “anti-trans.” “I think if we’re labeling pro-woman as anti-trans, wouldn’t that inherently mean pro-trans is anti-woman?May 18, 2023 · How voters view book bans and trans rights issues, per CBS News polling 02:20. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed several anti-transgender bills Wednesday which ban gender-affirming care for minors ... A new Florida law banning gender-affirming care for minors is getting a lot of attention nationally as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for president, but it's also impacting transgender adults. Children were the main focus of debate and coverage of the new law that DeSantis signed last month. However, it also includes restrictions on adult …While 2023 was a historically bleak year for anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, the past 12 months have also seen groundbreaking wins for equality. Whether at the ballot box, in the courts, or even in hostile state legislatures, advocates have won major victories that either further the rights of LGBTQ+ Americans or safeguard the protections that queer …March 6, 2023. Michael Knowles (Photo by Jason Davis/Getty Images) Getty Images. The right’s war on queer and trans people took center stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference as ...The recent blitz of anti-trans bills may not align with what many Republicans believe, but party lawmakers pursue them on behalf of their most important interest group.Missouri is ground zero for the firehose of anti-trans legislation ‘A politically toxic issue’: the legal battles over gender-critical beliefs. Published: 19 Jan 2024Feb 18, 2021 · The two anti-trans bills that passed last year in Idaho, HB 500 and HB 509, have both been enjoined in court. Still, Strangio emphasizes that this legislative session is going to be "a real test ... Photo: Scott Eisen via Getty Images. Former President Trump is promising to radically roll back transgender rights if elected president in 2024. The big picture: Gender-affirming care would be directly under threat from Trump, who vowed in a video posted to his social network to punish doctors and hospitals who provided the services to trans ...Here, PinkNews roots out the truth behind three of the most common anti-trans claims. The myth: Being trans is a social phenomenon sweeping through younger generations The widely discredited “trans social contagion theory” can be traced to a 2018 paper published by Lisa Littman, a former professor at Brown University who now serves …Comment. Transgender Utahns will no longer be able to use the bathroom of their gender identity in Utah’s government-owned and operated buildings under a bill …BREAKING: 2021 Becomes Record Year For Anti-Transgender Legislation. by Wyatt Ronan • March 13, 2021. Legislation filed this week mark the 80th, 81st, and 82nd anti-transgender bill introduced in the 2021 state legislative session, surpassing the 2020 total of 79 and marking the highest number of anti-transgender bills in history.Tennessee’s bill is the first anti-LGBT bill filed for state legislative sessions in 2023 following the midterm elections. But in 2022, state lawmakers across the US filed a …Mar 31, 2022 · The effects of these bills and laws would be devastating. A large survey published in Pediatrics in 2018 found that 30 to 50 percent of young trans and nonbinary people reported a previous suicide ... Photo: Scott Eisen via Getty Images. Former President Trump is promising to radically roll back transgender rights if elected president in 2024. The big picture: Gender-affirming care would be directly under threat from Trump, who vowed in a video posted to his social network to punish doctors and hospitals who provided the services to trans ...The anti-trans movement is made up of three main wings: The TERF and Bio-Essentialist Wing. The Far-Right and Conspiracy Wing. The Disinformation and Conversion Wing. These three wings are highly coordinated and collaborative, sharing research, resources, and cross-platforming each other’s work and ideas. Advocates say it’s hard to tell whether trans students have faced more harassment and bullying at school this year or whether the stories are just getting more attention from local news outlets.Apr 22, 2022 · While it isn't surprising to Rasor, the president of their school's Gender Sexuality Alliance group, Rasor believes Kentucky's anti-trans sports bill is a non-starter. "Transgender women are women ... Arresting dress: A timeline of anti-cross-dressing laws in the United States. In November 2014, an appeals court in Malaysia overturned a state law that barred Muslim men from dressing as women in ...Mar 15, 2023 · This is already the worst year in history for anti-trans legislation, and we’re not even three months into 2023. The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) estimates that more than 380 ... Keen-Minshull in 2017. Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (née Keen; born 1974 or 1975), also known as Posie Parker, is a British gender-critical and anti–transgender rights activist. She is the founder of the group Standing for Women and special advisor to the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF). Keen-Minshull has been described as a key figure against the United …3 days ago · According to Trans Legislation Tracker, the total number of anti-trans bills surged by more than three times in 2023 compared to the previous two years, with the introduction of 503 bills and the ... Kansas SB 180. Passed April 27, 2023. This law bans trans people from using the appropriate facilities in a number of areas, including restrooms, locker rooms, women’s shelters, rape crisis ...Whenever you visit a social network or a comments section, this extension will color known trans-friendly (green) and anti-trans (red) users/pages differently. Which sites are supported? This extension supports Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Medium, YouTube, Wikipedia articles, search engine results and all the sites with Disqus comments.Mar 5, 2020 · Instead, a clearer term is called for: anti-trans activists. Using TERF leads to misguided battles over what counts as a slur, and, more importantly, obscures the truth about the nature of the ... Opinion: If you say you’re a trans ally, this is what you have to do. The group developed two primary tactics it thought would appeal to different types of voters. The first was a more palatable ...A bathroom bill is the common name for legislation or a statute that denies access to public toilets by gender or transgender identity. Bathroom bills affect access to sex-segregated public facilities for an individual based on a determination of their sex as defined in some specific way, such as their sex as assigned at birth, their sex as listed on their birth …Mar 29, 2023 · Forty-three percent of Americans now say they support laws that criminalize the act of providing gender-transition-related medical care to minors, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist ... The anti-trans backlash Bud Light faced has spread to other brands. After Target released its 2023 Pride collection in May, critics were incensed by "tuck friendly" swimsuits designed for ...Irreversible Damage. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters is a 2020 book by Abigail Shrier, published by Regnery Publishing, which endorses the controversial concept of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). [1] [2] [3] Shrier states that there was a "sudden, severe spike in transgender identification among …Jun 2, 2022 · 2021 was a record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation. More than 290 bills targeting the LGBTQ + community were introduced in state legislatures – 25 of which were enacted.2022 is already ... The anti-trans laws are part of a larger wave of Republican anti-LGBTQ legislation. Republicans have introduced and passed a number of bills that prevent trans students from participating in ...Mar 5, 2020 · Instead, a clearer term is called for: anti-trans activists. Using TERF leads to misguided battles over what counts as a slur, and, more importantly, obscures the truth about the nature of the ... A new SPLC propaganda document claims to ‘expose’ a vast ‘Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network’ that’s supposedly targeting trans people. The Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was founded in 1971 with a mission to fight poverty and racial discrimination. Its early litigation campaigns, which targeted the …According to the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), at least 56% of this year’s record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills were defeated and failed to become law. Only 14% passed, while the remainder will carry over into 2024. Of the 19 trans youth healthcare bans passed in 2023, nearly all are currently being challenged in court.Mar 24, 2022 · It is against this backdrop that the recent uptick in anti-trans legislation has emerged. PBS reports that 2021 was a landmark year for anti-trans legislation with over 100 bills introduced that seek to limit transgender rights. One such bill was passed in Texas in October 2021 barring transgender students from playing on sports teams that ... Ky Schevers is fighting back against the anti-trans movement she once took part in. Schevers was assigned the sex of female at birth and later chose to start gender-affirming care by taking ...An analysis of data on the 2022 midterms by Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank, found that Republican candidates for statewide office who spent heavily on anti-trans campaign ads in 2022 ...Jun 29, 2023 · Burgamy said one of the ways she works with clients to help them cope is by reminding them psychological science is on their side. “I remind them that this is human diversity, and they are exactly who they are meant to be and it’s not problematic, it’s not mental illness, it is normative, human identity, whether they’re gender diverse or their sexual orientation is diverse,” she said. Anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ hatred is something that is always "simmering," including in Canada, said Prof. Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism based at Ontario Tech ...Pointing to victories for Lambda and other advocacy groups over anti-trans and other rightwing laws at the state level, Buchert said: “These attacks are out of step with the way Americans view ...Trump is reimposing an old anti-trans military policy. The original trans military service ban was a bit different from the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that the military used to stop ...Nov 22, 2021 · Why All The Anti-Trans Arguments Are Bogus. Biologist and trans activist Dr. Julia Serano discusses what people like Ben Shapiro and J.K. Rowling get wrong about “biology” and debunks some common transphobic talking points. Current Affairs. filed 22 November 2021 in Interviews. There are a lot of bullshit arguments made against transgender ... I stand alongside the brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who’re standing up for freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of some of the most vulnerable in our society: young gay kids, fragile teenagers, and women who’re reliant on and wish to retain their single sex spaces.PRISM is an LGBTQ+ youth organization that advocates for better sex education and sexual health resources. In addition to STI testing and online resources, PRISM runs a student ambassador program connecting queer and trans activists from high schools and colleges across Florida. Donations are 501 (c)3 tax deductible.Social Issues. Her story fueled anti-trans bills. Now, she’s fighting them. Carey Callahan was once a prominent critic of gender-affirming care for minors. Then she began to worry her words were ...Jun 28, 2022 · Plurality of adults say views on gender identity issues are changing too quickly. Many Americans are not comfortable with the pace of change that’s occurring around issues involving gender identity. Some 43% say views on issues related to people who are transgender and nonbinary are changing too quickly. About one-in-four (26%) say things are ... Apr 17, 2023 · An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the total number of anti-trans bills introduced in 2022 was 156. It was 150. This version has been updated. State legislators have introduced ... In an extraordinary attack on trans rights, conservative state lawmakers proposed more than 110 anti-trans bills this year. On the first day of Pride month, the governor of Florida, Ron...Proponents of ROGD, including J.K. Rowling and Joe Rogan, have also claimed that transness is a “social contagion” because young people are using trans identification as a way to escape homophobic bullying.There’s a lot of misconceptions to unpack in that one sentence, but the Pediatrics study addresses the most vital one: once …Thy Art Is Murder 's CJ McMahon has apparently deactivated or deleted his public Instagram page after he purportedly shared anti-trans content and his support for it, according to reports. Facing ...Nov 23, 2022 · Ky Schevers is fighting back against the anti-trans movement she once took part in. Schevers was assigned the sex of female at birth and later chose to start gender-affirming care by taking ... . Dec 30, 2021 · Anti-Trans Violence and Rhetoric Reached Record HThe effects of anti-trans legislation -- and the rhetoric that a A new Florida law banning gender-affirming care for minors is getting a lot of attention nationally as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis runs for president, but it's also impacting transgender adults. Children were the main focus of debate and coverage of the new law that DeSantis signed last month. However, it also includes restrictions on adult …Roughly 5% of the anti-trans bills introduced in state legislatures this year have passed, an Axios review found. The new laws are mainly in the South and Midwest. … Kansas SB 180. Passed April 27, 2023. This law b Many Salvation Army shelters do help LGBTQ people — but critics say harm-reduction services don’t make up for anti-gay lobbying. In his recent op-ed, Hudson explained that even if some ...Anti-trans laws play on fears that children may irreversibly alter their bodies and then come to regret it. But such scare tactics ignore reality for the vast majority of people who receive treatment. Plurality of adults say views on gender identity i...
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