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I don’t know if you noticed but the Republicans have targeted trans youth for their concentrated legislative efforts on us. It is like they had a meeting and decided we were the weakest link.

31 anti-transgender bills filed in 20 states as GOP targets schoolchildren nationwide
From school sports to putting doctors in prison for treating trans patients, lawmakers in these states want to make people's lives harder.
LGBTQ Nation
By Alex Bollinger
February 5, 2021


At least 20 states are currently considering at least 31 bills that would attack the rights of transgender people – mostly attacking transgender youth – as more state lawmakers file bills to tear away as the limited rights and protections that currently exist for transgender people.

Georgia Rep. Philip Singleton (R) filed a bill yesterday that makes the state the seventeenth in the nation to consider a bill that would ban transgender girls and women from competing in school sports as their gender.

“I just feel like in the time that we’re in right now — in a global pandemic — we’re going into our second year of being in lockdown and our elected officials have nothing to do other than worry about what’s in someone’s underpants,” said Jen Slipakoff, the mother of a 13-year-old transgender student-athlete in Georgia.

Arizona, Connecticut, Iowa, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas are all considering bills that would ban transgender girls and women from school sports this year. Some of the bills also ban transgender boys and men from competing as their gender as well.

It is like the Republican legislators went to a conference on passing hate legislation against LGBTQ+ people.

It is like they targeted the most vulnerable, at risk population to use for wedge politics. They don’t care the psychological and emotional damage that do to young children as long as it gets them voters and campaign donations.

Connecticut is not immune from this madness, there are three anti-trans bill before the legislature, they are:

• HB-5795 AN ACT PROHIBITING BIOLOGICAL MALES FROM COMPETING ON PUBLIC FEMALE-ONLY ATHLETIC TEAMS IN INTERCOLLEGIATE, INTERSCHOLASTIC AND INTRAMURAL ATHLETIC EVENTS.
• HB-6128 AN ACT PROHIBITING STUDENT ATHLETES WHO WERE BORN AS MALES FROM PARTICIPATING IN WOMEN'S INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC EVENTS
• SB-324 AN ACT CONCERNING CIVIL IMMUNITY FOR INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC ORGANIZATIONS AND THE SANCTIONING BODIES OF PRIVATE YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS.

They all target trans athletes and they all were introduced by Republicans.

I am researching talking points against the bills and also contacting other LGBTQ+ organizations here in Connecticut to discuss our responses to the bills

What you need to do here in Connecticut is email your state legislators telling them that you are against the bills.

There are a number of pro-LGBTQ+ bills that were also introduced this year, I'll discuss them in later posts.