The legislative agenda includes measures to block teachers from using pronouns matching a student's gender identity, ban trans girls from playing on girls' sports teams and require trans people to use bathrooms corresponding to their sex assigned at birth.
- Republican legislators across the United States have escalated a campaign to ban certain healthcare for transgender youth, in some cases seeking to charge parents and doctors with child abuse if they provide treatment.
"This issue will be a national debate in the next presidential election," said Jay Richards, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. "If Republicans in the relevant states handle this properly, it's actually politically beneficial." In addition to the familiar legislative efforts targeting sports and bathrooms, the emphasis this year is on banning gender-affirming care, the goal of 97 bills in 27 states.Gender-affirming care covers a variety of treatments, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and, in exceedingly rare cases for trans people under 18, surgery. Medical associations, which call the bills transphobic, say such healthcare can be life-saving.
Governors in South Dakota and Utah have already signed into law gender-affirming care bans that state legislatures passed this year.
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