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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsG.O.P. State Lawmakers Push a Growing Wave of Anti-Transgender Bills
Over the past three years, Republican state lawmakers have put forward a barrage of bills to regulate the lives of transgender youths, restricting the sports teams they can play on, bathrooms they can use and medical care they can receive.
But even by those standards, the start of the 2023 legislative season stands out for the aggressiveness with which lawmakers are pushing into new territory.
The bills they have proposed more than 150 in at least 25 states include bans on transition care into young adulthood; restrictions on drag shows using definitions that could broadly encompass performances by transgender people; measures that would prevent teachers in many cases from using names or pronouns matching students gender identities; and requirements that schools out transgender students to their parents.
The flood of legislation is part of a long-term campaign by national groups that see transgender rights as an issue on which they can harness voter anger as with the campaigns against remote learning and critical race theory that reshaped many school boards and lifted Republicans in Virginias elections in 2021 though the midterm elections provided little evidence of it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/us/politics/transgender-laws-republicans.html
bucolic_frolic
(43,166 posts)Given enough time, their efforts will fail.
And surely I've painted with a broad brush, so apologies to any in those categories who think differently and don't fit my crude framework.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,930 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)1.3 million
current US population? 332 million
0.39% identify as transgender.
Yeah...huge pressing issue.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Even some on DU are pretty bad against trans people. I've experienced it many times over. We are just very easy to attack
Roland99
(53,342 posts)If that
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)You'll have to literally kill us. Which we would fight back. You pass your unconstitutional horseshit. Trans people especially adults will continue their journeys. Fuck you fascists. Try to stop me.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,332 posts)It's that bad.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,930 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,930 posts)GOP-backed bill in Oklahoma would fine drag performers up to $20,000 and have them face up to 2 years in jail for performing in front of a minor
An Oklahoma bill would make it a felony punishable by a $20,000 fine for drag artists to perform in front of minors.
The bill by GOP Rep. Kevin West would also make it a misdemeanor for one to organize drag performances in public.
At least ten states have proposed legislation that targets drag performances, including drag queen story hours.
An Oklahoma bill would make it a felony punishable by up to a $20,000 fine for drag artists to perform in front of minors.
The bill would make it "unlawful for a person to engage in an adult cabaret performance" in public before a minor. The fine may fall in the range of $500 to $20,000, and it may also incur a prison sentence from 30 days to two years, according to the bill's text.
State GOP Rep. Kevin West, who filed House Bill 2186 on January 19, told Insider that the bill is intended to limit performances "in a public place."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-gop-backed-bill-in-oklahoma-would-fine-drag-performers-up-to-20-000-and-have-them-face-up-to-2-years-in-jail-for-performing-in-front-of-a-minor/ar-AA16JvOU