A wave of legislation affecting LGBT people has advanced a record number of bills across the country in 2023, especially focused on transgender youth.
The most common topics the bills center on involve sports participation, bathroom bans, and hormone treatments and surgeries.Below is a roundup of the most recent measures involving LGBT issues from states with a high volume of bills, including red-state legislation such as Florida's ban on K-8 classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity.Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Let Kids Be Kids legislation into law in May.
“Florida is proud to lead the way in standing up for our children,” DeSantis said in a press release. “As the world goes mad, Florida represents a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy.”Missouri became the latest state to bar transgender minors from receiving gender transition surgery or treatments, with an exception for individuals already on hormones or puberty blockers.
Parson also signed Senate Bill 39 into law simultaneously, banning transgender students from participating in school sports in a “competition that is designated for the biological sex opposite to the student's biological sex as correctly stated on the student's official birth certificate.” The"Save Women's Sports Act," or Senate Bill 15, prohibits a biological male from competing in a college-level athletic competition in which biological female athletes compete in.
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