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Erin Reed Profile picture
@ErinInTheMorn
Jan 5 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1. Only 5 days into 2024, there have been 125 anti-trans bills filed.

This is well ahead of the pace of 2023, which was the worst year in history for anti-trans legislation.

I detail where we stand in my latest piece.

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2. In 2023, at this point, we had roughly 50 bills. We closed the year off with 550.

This year, we are seeing tons of bills such as care bans, bathroom bans, and even bills ending all legal recognition of trans people.

Read my article here:

erininthemorning.com/p/only-5-days-…
3. A full breakdown of the bills can be seen here. Primarily, we are seeing a wave of expansions on Don't Say Gay/Trans laws, gender affirming care bans, and book bans. Image
4. One thing to note is that few states passed the full gambit of anti-trans legislation in 2023. In 2024, many states are now going back to "find out what they missed."

This is often things like sports bans, expanded care bans, and drag bans.
5. The state with the most anti-trans bills currently proposed in Missouri, which released 21 on the first day of prefiling.

erininthemorning.com/p/missouri-ann…
6. The states moving the quickest appear to be Ohio and New Hampshire. Ohio just today announced trans adult bans. Meanwhile, trans youth bans are heading for a veto override session.

7. In New Hampshire, for the first time, a small number of Democrats voted for a surgery ban + a bill allowing sports/bathroom/prison bans. This was enough to push the bills over the line.

8. If you would like a full dataset of the bills currently being tracked, we maintain the 2024 dataset here:

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
9. Lastly, if you find my work valuable, please support it. LGBTQ+ journalism is more important now than ever, and I can only do this with your support.

Subscribe to support my work at erininthemorning.com

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Erin Reed Profile picture
Jan 6
We have the proposed rules from DeWine, and they are bad.

Bottom line: This will close clinics, force trans adults off care, has even more draconian restrictions under 21 years old, and creates an extreme surveillance system for trans people.


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Lets talk about the bad and the worse.

Clinics will close. The rules require providers offering care to have a psychiatrist, an endo, and a bioethicist.

This instantly shuts down individual MDs, fertility clinics, IC clinics providing care who cannot hire the above. Image
What is less clear is what those people have to do. It appears to me, and to others that have weighed in, that the bioethicist must create a care plan that employs specific services by a psychiatrist and endocrinologist.

Meaning they may have to be involved in the treatment. Image
Read 13 tweets
Erin Reed Profile picture
Jan 4
1. Breaking: A new bill has just been filed in Florida that would require mass biological sex affidavits from Floridians, and would end all transgender legal recognition.

It is strikingly similar to Russia's 2020 law and Hungary's 2023.

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2. The bill is an evolution of previous bills passed in a handful of states that define sex in a way that excludes trans people.

What this bill has, though, is a draconian enforcement and surveillance system through affidavits.

Read my article:

erininthemorning.com/p/florida-bill…
3. The affidavits are required under the provisions in the drivers license section, where all people obtaining a drivers license in Florida would be required to sign an affidavit stating their biological sex.

This opens up a whole new door for enforcement of anti-trans laws. Image
Read 12 tweets
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Jan 4
1. A transgender candidate has been removed from the ballot in Ohio over a decades-old name change law.

Neither the statewide candidacy guide nor the official petition list the requirement.

Similar laws could impact candidates in other states.

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2. The candidate, Vanessa Joy, did not receive any primary challengers. Her petition was rejected due to a law put in place in 1995 requiring old names to be listed due to name changes.

It exempts marriage name changes.

Read my article here:

erininthemorning.com/p/transgender-…
3. The disqualification was first reported by @MorganTrau in Ohio, who reports that other transgender candidates were allowed to proceed with their candidacy - the law appears to have been selectively enforced and unknown to commissioners.

news5cleveland.com/news/politics/…
Read 9 tweets
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Dec 30, 2023
1. Today I am releasing the final legislative risk map of 2023 for 2024. This map evaluates the risk of the worst anti-trans laws passing in each state over the next two years.

Lets dig in, and don't forget to subscribe to support my work. Image
2. Included is both a youth and an adult map. I also assess the nationwide risk in the story.

Moves in this update include Louisiana and Ohio both growing in risk for transgender adults, moving into the "high" risk category.

Read the article here:

erininthemorning.com/p/erins-2024-a…
3. Before going into each category, the nationwide risk is set at "Moderate." Increasing budgetary bills that target trans issues using budgetary riders will be a major danger this year. If Republicans gain all 3 branches in the next election, nationwide bans are possible.
Read 8 tweets
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Dec 30, 2023
Incredible new ruling out of a federal court in Iowa!

Iowa's Don't Say Gay law, book ban has been BLOCKED in court.

The law is so overly vague that "every elementary school teacher has likely violated it already."

This is a major victory on a day of LGBTQ+ victories! Image
The law, as it is written, bans instruction on "sexual orientation" or "gender identity" but does not define them, meaning that they also include straight or cisgender people.

The Judge realizes, "straight" is also a sexuality, and cisgender people also have gender identities! Image
I'm still pouring through the ruling and will react here as I read.

But this is an incredible victory!

Thanks to @Nora_JSR for first reporting!

Read 18 tweets
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Dec 29, 2023
1. In a stunning move, Gov Mike DeWine has just vetoed the gender affirming care ban for trans youth in Ohio, stating "It is the parents who know their child best."

He cited discussions with parents, the Ohio Children's Hospitals in his decision.

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2. Governor DeWine's veto was heavily focused on parental rights. He said, "were Ohio to pass HB68, Ohio would be saying the state knows better, what is medically best for the child, than the two people who love that child the most: the parents."

erininthemorning.com/p/ohio-governo…
3. The bill, HB68, was sponsored by Representative Gary Click, a right wing pastor who has acknowledged practicing conversion therapy. Under the proposed law, trans youth could no longer gery care in the state. Image
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