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2. The law has faced a rocky rode to passage. Many anti-trans influencers targeted legislators on social media. Those attacks were followed by anonymous bomb threats.
2. This year, some of the biggest fights over anti-trans legislation happened in Iowa. Bills included a bill defining trans people as disabled, a bill stripping all civil rights from trans people, a "pink triangle" bill, and more.
2. Governor Greg Abbott claims to have heard about a "man in a dress" who was teaching, and says that Texas must "end that behavior," citing fears of normalization of trans and GNC people.
2. The interview, first reported on by @DadTrans, was done with a group of LGBTQ+ organizations who asked Dr. Cass questions about her review.
This also implicates Dr. Kaltiala, a favored source for anti-trans things in Europe.
2. The Cass Review was released last week, and as expected, it appears to be pretext to ban care f in England.
2. The ruling, which allowed an Idaho trans care ban to go back into effect, was more about broad preliminary injunctions than it was about trans people. Importantly, it did not rule on the constitutionality of trans care at all.
2. The bill, SB2782, bars any effort that helps minors obtain gender affirming care, even if it is legally obtained across state lines. Some have expressed fear it may be used to target even providing information about healthcare.
2. On Tuesday evening, Dr. Hillary Cass released a final report commissioned by the NHS widely expected to target trans care.
2. This is a substantial decision, as it directly overrides one of the new "Don't Say Gay" expansion's policies when it comes to the enforcement of gendered pronouns on a transgender teacher in Florida's school system.
2. The Daily Mail story, seen 35,000,000 times after being shared by Elon Musk shared it, claims most "gender confused" youth "grow out of it."
2. Pastor Mark Burns, who just received Trump's endorsement, reacted to the endorsement on the Freeman Report, and doubled down, stating that Democrats are "attacking real women in America" by supporting trans people.
2. I cover the bill here, which protects "religious or moral beliefs" from being considered "not in the best interest" of LGBTQ+ kids.
2. Georgia is the latest state to defeat all of its anti-trans legislation. In Florida and West Virginia, similar massive defeats of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation happened. More broadly, only 16 explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ bills passed this year.
2. The new lawsuit, filed by the ACLU, asserts that the trans ban in the state is unconstitutional.
2. The national budget fight had as many as 40 anti-LGBTQ+ riders, many of which focused on transgender people.
The above list is from an extreme anti-trans account's target list. But those who support LD227 need to hear from people in favor of the bill as well.
2. In recent months, many states have slowed their attacks on transgender people. While a staggering 500 bills have been introduced in 2024, far fewer are advancing this year than last year.
2. The bill, known as a Private Member's Bill, was proposed by former PM Liz Truss. It would have barred gender affirming care for trans youth, defined sex to exclude trans people, and more.