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We tend to think of the Northeast as being a haven to LGBTQ+ rights, all of the states have pasted gender inclusive non-discrimination laws including New Hampshire but they want to carve out an exception to the law for trans children.

A New Hampshire bill would ban gender-affirming care for minors & many adults
"We have been saying a slow moving genocide targeted at eliminating transgender people through eliminating gender affirming care is happening."
LGBTQ Nation
By Molly Sprayregen
December 17, 2022


New Hampshire Republicans have proposed a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for both minors and young adults.

Activist Erin Reed pointed out on Twitter that the bill, LSR0071,  is the third proposed in a week that targets trans adults along with youth.

“They will continue to raise the age until states ban transition entirely,” Reed wrote.

“We have been saying a slow moving genocide targeted at eliminating transgender people through eliminating gender affirming care is happening,” she added. “It continues.”

New Hampshire is a kind of a reddish purple state. It swings between Republican and Democratic control, since 1992, the Democratics had four years of a Democratic trifectas and eleven years of Republican trifectas. “Live Free or Die” is the state motto but it only applies to conservatives, if you are trans the Republicans don’t care if you die.

The bill’s title seems to define gender-affirming care as a type of conversion therapy, which is banned in New Hampshire. It states that the bill seeks to prohibit “gender transition procedures for minors and young adults, relative to sex and gender in public schools, and relative to the definition of conversion therapy.”

The harmful and widely condemned practice of conversion therapy – in which so-called therapists try to force LGBTQ+ people into being straight and cisgender – is the exact opposite of gender-affirming care, which affirms people’s identities.

They have warped what conversion therapy means, my guess is that if this works in New Hampshire you will see the same tactic used in other purple states.. “we are only helping the children.” and they will use the biased research studies and ignore scientific research.