As the Biden administration reinstates LGBTQ+ health care protections, Dr. Rachel Levine called out Republican attempts to exploit transgender youth to rile up their base. The Assistant Secretary of Health said the record number of anti-trans bills pushed by GOP lawmakers this year is about using trans rights as a “wedge issue” ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Of the more than 250 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation introduced in 2021, 120 are aimed at the trans community, according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). 66 of those bills, an unprecedented number, seek to prevent transgender students from playing on school sports teams in alignment with their sense of self. Levine, who is currently the nation’s highest-ranking trans elected official said “It is also that transgender people have become more prominent, so I think maybe some pushback for that. But I think at its heart, this is politics.”
(VIDEO) Dr. Rachel Levine Calls Out GOP Attempts to Use Trans Youth as “Wedge Issue”
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