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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums226 bills target LGBTQ Americans this year. One organization is behind a lot of them.
The group Equality Federation is currently tracking 226 anti-LGBTQ bills being considered in state legislatures throughout the country, and one organization in particular is responsible for many of the bills.
Many of the bills are similar and target the transgender community, and specifically transgender youth.
The targeting of kids is really unique this year, Rose Saxe, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Unions LGBT and HIV Project, told NBC News. Its really shocking, the depth of attack on trans youth.
In January alone, more than twelve states have introduced bills that target transgender youth. The Associated Press reported that legislation banning doctors from providing transition-related care to transgender young people has been proposed in Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, and South Dakota.
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Straight privilege (heterosexism), homophobia, and transphobia in action. Too many ignore the very real perils facing the LGBTQ community.
chowder66
(9,055 posts)Founded in 2016 by former U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA), Project Blitz which has since renamed itself Freedom For All provides legislatures with templates and strategy to pass anti-LGBTQ bills.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"Freedom for All" is the sort of anodyne name these bigots dream up for themselves, effective in gulling the non-attentive (and let's face it, who can pay attention to all of it?). It's up to us to keep ourselves informed, and tell others that "Freedom for All" is as Orwellian a name as you can get.
chowder66
(9,055 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,259 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,757 posts)leftstreet
(36,101 posts)irisblue
(32,932 posts)(BTW Jackie Borchart is a very smart and good reporter-her twitter-. JMBorchardt
Snip--"COLUMBUS A new Ohio bill seeks to restrict gender-identity medical treatments for transgender youth by penalizing the doctors who prescribe them.
Republican Reps. Ron Hood of Ashville and Bill Dean of Xenia plan to introduce the "Protect Vulnerable Children Act" this week.
Hood told The Enquirer physicians could be charged with a third-degree felony for attempting therapeutic or surgical procedures intended to alter the gender of someone under age 18. Parents could also file civil lawsuits against physicians for providing treatment.
"My number one concern, by far and away, is the irreversible nature of these procedures," Hood said. "These procedures, most of them, lead to sterilization. And these things are not reversible."
More at article. Same tactics as restrictions on women's health care, go at the doctors and medical staff.