An analysis released Monday by NPR details what one rights advocacy group called the Republican Party's "obsession" 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. Lawmakers in every region of the United States have put forward a total of 306 anti-trans bills since 2020, with 86% of the bills focusing on transgender youths. 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 the 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 on—and threaten to perpetuate—misinformation about transgender people, including a Tennessee law that bars medical professionals from providing hormone treatments to prepubescent children. NPR's reporting reveals that trans people—youth especially—continue to be under attack. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) noted that the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity, has passed in the U.S. House, but has yet to pass in the Senate due to the legislative filibuster, which effectively requires 60 votes for bills to pass instead of a simple majority.
Study Reports State Legislators Proposed Record 306 Bills Targeting Trans People
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