With most legislative sessions beginning in January or February 2021, we’ll keep you updated as these bills head to the floor. Now, as state legislatures begin their 2021 sessions, we’re seeing bills crop up left and right-most aimed at preventing trans youth from accessing life-saving health care, and excluding trans girls from participating on girls’ sports teams at federally funded institutions. Last fall, we kept an eye on pre-filed bills in statehouses across the country aimed at chipping away at the rights of transgender people.
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At the time of signing, thousands of Mississippi residents remain without water or power, a month after a series of storms swept the state.Īs reported recently by, many of the bills listed below draw language from model legislation created and made available by the “Promise to America’s Children” coalition, whose leading partners include the Heritage Foundation and the Alliance Defending Freedom, the latter of which has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. SB 2536 will prohibit trans kids from participating on the sports team that is consistent with their gender identity. PST.Įditor’s note: On March 11, the first of this year’s round of bills - and the second ever - was signed into law by Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves.
( Twitter / post was last updated on Maat 11 a.m. As state legislatures begin their 2021 sessions, lawmakers across the country are taking aim at transgender rights, with a multitude of bills aimed at preventing trans youth from accessing life saving health care, and excluding trans girls from participating on girls’ sports teams at federally funded institutions.Īs state legislatures begin their 2021 sessions, we’re seeing anti-trans bills crop up left and right.
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