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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTransgender rights targeted in twice as many bills this year as in 2015
http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/02/transgender-rights-targeted-in-twice-as-many-bills-so-far-this-year-as-in-2015/State lawmakers have gone after transgender rights in twice as many bills so far this year as in all of 2015, a new Human Rights Campaign study finds, as reported by The Guardian. Half of those bills are aimed at children.
HRC found 44 anti-transgender bills, in 16 states, out of more than 175 bills aiming to block rights for LGBTQ people in general. Twenty-three of those bills singled out transgender kids, with most of them trying to keep them out of school bathrooms, locker rooms or sports teams if the kids choices dont align with the gender they were assigned at birth.
HRC found 44 anti-transgender bills, in 16 states, out of more than 175 bills aiming to block rights for LGBTQ people in general. Twenty-three of those bills singled out transgender kids, with most of them trying to keep them out of school bathrooms, locker rooms or sports teams if the kids choices dont align with the gender they were assigned at birth.
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Transgender rights targeted in twice as many bills this year as in 2015 (Original Post)
randys1
Feb 2016
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blm
(113,065 posts)1. This is GOP's way of Getting Out The Hate Vote.
They need that vote to turn up big in election years.
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. The usual twofer for them, they get the vote to turn out and they get to legislate hate
which is ALL the gop does
LisaM
(27,813 posts)3. Thank you for the information and getting this on peoples' radar
It's a group too largely ignored and misunderstood.
Initech
(100,081 posts)4. Conservatives suck. That's all I have to say.