A new legislative season begins and with it new anti-trans legislation. Will it happen here in Connecticut? In the past there have been anti-trans bills introduced here in Connecticut, one bill tried to strip health insurance from us.
At least 7 states proposed anti-trans bills in first week of 2022
State lawmakers across the country introduced at least nine measures this week that would limit the rights of transgender and nonbinary youth.
NBC News
By Matt Lavietes
January 7, 2022
Throughout the first week of the year, state lawmakers in at least seven states proposed laws that would limit the rights of transgender and nonbinary youths.Republican lawmakers in Arizona, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, New Hampshire and South Dakota introduced at least nine measures that target trans and nonbinary youths, such as their ability to participate in sports, receive gender-affirming care or use the bathroom.
The legislative push within the first few days of 2022 quickly follows what some advocates have labeled the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks.”
“Unfortunately, I think we’re getting ready to watch a race to the bottom among legislators who are in a competition to see who can do the most harm to trans kids,” said Gillian Branstetter, a longtime trans advocate and the media manager for women’s advocacy group the National Women’s Law Center. “It is a hostile and dangerous trend that I’m sure we’ll see continue through the year.”
Notice which party is introducing the legislation?
They don’t care if trans child die.
They don’t care what national medical association say about the legislation.
All they care about is driving a wedge between the voters and getting votes and campaign contributions.
Supporters of the bills have largely argued that they want to prevent young people from making medical decisions they might later regret and to protect the rights of cisgender girls and women in school sports.
“It is unfortunate that we see this as removing the rights of any people,” Republican state Rep. Rhonda Milstead, who introduced South Dakota’s trans sports ban this week, told NBC News in an email. “If competitive sports are made to be fair, there is a place for everyone to compete according to the biology they were born with.”
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Major medical associations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association and the Pediatric Endocrine Society, have also openly opposed bills that limit trans rights, with the AMA warning that they could cause “tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.”
Concerning mental health specifically, LGBTQ advocates have long warned that the bills have been damaging to the already vulnerable group of youths.
They know that they medical associations are saying it will harm us but they are ignoring the warning so that is what they must want to cause us harm.
Meanwhile…
In the first six months, President Biden has undone Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders or policy changes,
- January 20, 2021 - Executive Order Implementing the Bostock Decision (Which ruled that we are covered under Title VII.)
- January 21, 2021 - Trump Ban on Diversity Training Revoked
- January 23, 2021 - Department of Justice Reversal of Trump Era Memorandum Designed to Limit Bostock Implementation
- January 25, 2021 - Repeal of the Ban on Transgender Military Service
- February 2, 2021 - Pete Buttigieg Confirmed as Transportation Secretary
- February 4, 2021 - Memorandum on Protecting Rights of LGBTQ People Abroad
- February 9, 2021 - Press Secretary Psaki Affirms Trans Rights are Human Rights
- February 11, 2021 - Fair Housing Act Enforced to Protect LGBTQ People
- February 19, 2021 - President Biden Encourages Passage of the Equality Act
- March 8, 2021 - Executive Orders on Gender Equality and Title IX
- March 9, 2021 - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Enforces Equal Credit Opportunity Act
- March 24, 2021 - Dr. Rachel Levine Confirmed as Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health & Human Services
- March 30, 2021 - Secretary of State Blinken Rejects Conclusion on the Commission on Unalienable Rights
- March 31, 2021 - President Biden Issues Transgender Day of Visibility Message
- March 31, 2021 - Department of Defense Releases Detailed Directives on Reversing Transgender Military Ban
- April 5, 2021 - Department of Justice Issues Memo on Title IX Protecting LGBTQ Students
- April 13, 2021 - Department of Housing & Urban Development Announced Plans to Restore Housing Protections
- April 22, 2021 - Department of Housing & Urban Development Withdraws Trump-Era Proposal to Gut Equal Access Rule
- April 23, 2021 - President Biden Announces Historic Nominations to the Department of Defense
- April 23, 2021 - Department of Justice Advocates for Fair Treatment of Incarcerated Transgender Individuals
- April 27, 2021 - President Biden Nominates Gina Ortiz Jones as Undersecretary of the Air Force
- May 10, 2021 - President Biden Enforces Non-Discrimination Protections in Health Care
- May 17, 2021 - President Biden Recognizes IDAHOTB
- June 1, 2021- President Biden Restores Tradition of Recognizing Pride Month in Official Proclamation
- June 1, 2021 - Kamala Harris Becomes First Sitting Vice President to March in Pride Parade
- June 16, 2021 - Department of Education Says Title IX Protections Apply to LGBTQ students
- June 17, 2021 - Department of Justice Moves To Protect Transgender Young People Against Discriminatory State Legislation in West Virginia & Arkansas
- June 25, 2021 - White House Signing of National Pulse Memorial Legislation
- June 30, 2021 - White House Forms Interagency Working Group Focused on Safety, Inclusion, and Opportunity for Transgender Individuals
- June 30, 2021 - State Department Announces Changes to Passport Gender Markers
The Equality Act is still tied up in the Senate because Republican Senate Minority Leader McConnell has vowed to block the bill.
There is one party that has our back and the other party is stabbing us in the back.
When you vote Republican you are endorsing their hateful attacks on us.
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