As anti-trans legislation proliferates in 2024, community fears erasure from public viewhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-anti-trans-legislation-proliferates-in-2024-community-fears-erasure-from-public-view/ar-BB1hRMbx?cvid=087d24e8478b4ce0bf4f90b2f933f917&ei=5Story by Marc Ramirez (12 Feb 2024)
The Human Rights Campaign, among the country's largest LGBTQ+ civil rights groups, said 130 bills targeting transgender rights had been filed nationwide in 2024, compared with roughly 225 last year. Overall, the group said, 325 anti-LGBTQ+ bills had been proposed in 2024 as of Jan. 25, compared with 503 in all of 2023.
"For years, transgender people have warned of radical anti-LGBTQ+ forces' true aim: to abuse governmental power to take away our freedoms and drive trans people out of public society," said Kelley Robinson, the organization's president, in a statement decrying what she called a "sinister agenda."
Last week, Michigan news outlet Mlive.com reported Republicans in the Michigan and Ohio legislatures described banning access to gender-affirming care for adults as well as young people as the "endgame" in a conversation on the social media platform X.
Siobhan Boyd-Nelson, co-interim executive director of Equality Ohio, said the group was "profoundly disappointed" in Ohio "lawmakers' unwillingness to listen to medical professionals, young people and their families. ... There's absolutely no reason for government overreach into the personal medical decisions of Ohioans."
"We're seeing it happen across the country, and we think people should be very concerned about what appears to be an obsession with marginalizing and harming an already marginalized community."
