Half of trans people in US have considered moving out of state because of anti-LGBTQ laws: survey
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Story by Brooke Migdon (7 Feb 2024)
(The Hill) — Nearly half of transgender people in the U.S. have considered moving to another state because of legislation in their home state that threatens to curtail access to things like gender-affirming health care, public restrooms and school sports, according to a survey published Wednesday by the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE).
Roughly half, or 47 percent, of the more than 92,000 transgender and nonbinary people surveyed by the NCTE, a nonprofit group that focuses on transgender policy reform, said they had thought about moving to another state at some point during the past year because their state government had either pursued or passed laws that target the transgender community.
Around 5 percent of respondents — just north of 4,500 people — said they had already moved because of anti-LGBTQ legislation, according to Wednesday's report, the latest iteration of NCTE's U.S. Transgender Survey. The report reflects responses collected by the group at the end of 2022, after the pandemic and a string of organizational blunders caused the NCTE to forgo its original 2020 deadline.
"It's truly astonishing to know that people living in the United States at this time are having to think about leaving their home state, let alone that so many people have actually had to leave," Sandy James, the survey's lead researcher, said Tuesday on a Zoom call with reporters ahead of the report's public release.
This is one purpose of the anti-T laws, but if all the transpeople flee, they'll have to find someone else to hate. When you operate on hate, you must have a victim.