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Chase Strangio Profile picture
@chasestrangio
Jan 5, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
It is January which means states will be starting legislative sessions soon and we will again see gratuitous attacks on trans people, particularly trans youth. I will pin this thread to add bills and action items as sessions progress.
Remember to begin contacting your state senators and representatives to tell them to oppose any anti-trans bills. There will also likely be anti-abortion, anti-"Critical Race Theory", and voter suppression measures. Be sure to follow proposed laws in your state and TAKE ACTION.
Arizona has prefiled a bill to ban health care for trans minors (like the bill that passed in Arkansas last year) with additional provisions to require disclosure by school staff to a parent or guardian of any child exploring their gender - SB1045: azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/…
Arizona also has a bill that would ban trans girls from sports (including club and intramural) at all levels of competition (K-college). Bill also opens the door to scrutiny of bodies of all women and girl athletes - SB1046: azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/…
Alabama has one again filed its felony ban on health care for trans minors. The bill also requires school staff to disclose to parents or guardians, any child who is exploring their gender. SB5: alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/Searcha…
South Dakota (seemingly returning to 2016), has a bill that would ban trans students from restrooms and lockerrooms. Gives students private right of action to sue if encounter trans student in restroom or locker room. HB1005: mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/…
South Dakota also has a ban on trans girls participating in sports. HB1006: mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/…
Both of South Dakota's bills seemingly have SB8-style enforcement where main penalty is a lawsuit by "aggrieved" students who suffer the "injury" of encountering a trans person in a single-sex space or activity.
Because South Dakota is always doing the most, another anti-trans sports bill dropped today. Also categorically barring trans women and girls from all sports including club and intramural. SB46: mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/…
Kentucky has introduced a bill banning gender-affirming health care for minors (similar to the bill that Arkansas passed last year). Once again it explicitly allows non-consensual surgeries on infants with intersex traits. HB253: apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocument…
Kentucky also has introduced a bill banning trans youth from sports through college. HB247: apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocument…
Alaska has a bill banning trans women and girls from sports. In a pandemic with a huge strain on school resources, states are choosing to open the door to lawsuits against schools where people believe someone of the "wrong sex" is playing sports. HB230 akleg.gov/PDF/32/Bills/H…
Florida has introduced a bill that, among other things, prohibits "encouraging" discussion of sexual orientation or gender identity in primary school or in age inappropriate ways (undefined). SB1834: flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2…

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Feb 25, 2023
I am very concerned about all the ways that current criminal laws and new acts will be disparately enforced against trans people and drag performers but I think the widespread commentary on Tennessee's "drag bill" is wrong.
The bill was amended and the amended text prohibits certain enumerated acts including "male or female impersonators". But the prohibition is operative only when the performance is ALSO deemed "harmful to minors" as already defined under TN law.
That definition includes the traditional obscenity definition and requires the following. This is a high bar and I am not sure it would cover any of the things that are being discussed.
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Feb 23, 2023
I spent two weeks in AR for trial over the state's ban on care for trans minors. I grew to love it there and have family there in @immissmajor, Beck and their beautiful family, as well as with @intransitiveAR. But soon it could be a crime for me to go to the bathroom there.
This bill, SB 270, makes it the crime of sexual indecency with a child for a trans person to enter a public restroom when a minor might be present. arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail?i…
Not only does this bill make it a crime for a trans person to go about their business in public, it criminalizes trans adults for being proximate to minors. It posits us as threats to children for existing. This is the consequence of the rhetoric we are inundated with.
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Feb 14, 2023
In 2016 I began lobbying against anti-trans bills in state legislatures. At the time we were fighting back against the proliferation of the anti-trans bathroom bill and the false and weaponized narrative that trans people posed a threat to women and children in bathrooms.
In the years the followed, those pushing these bills (and ballot initiatives) admitted that the "safety" narrative fueling the bills in public discourse was entirely fabricated (which...of course it was). They shifted to focusing on privacy.
By shifting from "safety" to "privacy" - the rhetoric fueling anti-trans bills placed the "problem" squarely on the body and existence of trans people. It was not something we *did* but just who we are and how we look that was the problem.
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Sep 26, 2022
I had top surgery 13 years ago. There is not a day that goes by that I don’t think about how it was the best thing I have ever done for my survival. I also had orthopedic knee surgery at 14 and often regret it. But no NYTs pieces about orthopedic regret I see.
Pediatric ACL surgery is very common, particularly for athletes in girls’ sports who are not supported in strength training. It comes with a lifetime of potential complications. Many surgeries do. And yet this is how medicine works.
Meanwhile we hear about an “explosion” in trans care. But so much of the need was always there we just had no access to treatment. I spent years trying to access top surgery had to travel across the country for care and paid for it with student loans.
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Sep 1, 2022
The insidiousness and disingenuousness of the conversation over trans health care continues to escalate. There are a few critical points that I think we need to make about the care and about the conversation. A Twitter thread is not ideal but here is a start.
What is the care & what is the "concern"? When we talk about care for adolescents we are talking about post-pubertal adolescents *only*. Surgeries on pre-pubertal children DO NOT happen for gender dypshoria. But these surgeries are forced upon infants with intersex traits.
The treatment is all treatment that is used to treat other conditions. Puberty blockers, hormones, & some surgeries in later adolescence. The alleged "concerns" are: (1) the care is irreversible & sterilizing; (2) being trans is harmful; (3) youth are being pressured to be trans.
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Jul 21, 2022
Been thinking a lot about the cost of our failures to build across movements for trans and reproductive justice. This is about so much more than language, semantics or equality. It is about how we learn from each other and build meaningful care networks.
Trans masculine people have vital insight to share about what it means to organize for, demand and access criminalized, stigmatized health care. We have existed at the intersection of multiple forms of health denial & multiple ways that bodies are deemed illegible and disposable.
In the past 15 years of my life, I have needed hormones, birth control, PrEP, PEP, Plan B, and emergency gynecogical care. I have gone to hospitals, doctors offices, surgeons, and other institutional sites of care provision only to have to turn to my community for the care I need
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