'Catastrophic' number of state bills target transgender youth, advocates say

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A growing number of states have introduced legislation that LGBTQ advocates say targets transgender youth and their access to school sports and gender-affirming health care. At least two dozen states have introduced bills this year that would ban transgender girls and women from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity, compared to 18 last year, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Sixteen states have also introduced bills that would prohibit and in some cases criminalize gender-affirming care for trans youth, such as puberty-blocking medications and hormones, up from 15 last year, according to the ACLU.

States have yet to pass health care bills impacting trans youth, though one in Alabama that would make it a felony to treat minors with puberty-blockers, hormone therapy or surgery passed the state Senate last week.

PHOTO: Where bills prohibiting gender-affirming health carefor transgender youth are under consideration elected and seated in a state legislature, said there is a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to the transgender community. "The more they single out and stigmatize the very people they're elected to serve, especially the most vulnerable among their constituents, violence in their communities will follow," Roem said.

Fox Schweiger, 18, a transgender college student from Tennessee, said he was not allowed to play sports at his private middle school and high school "so as to not upset the other students or their families."

 

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