In State Capitals, Republicans Propose New Limits on Transgender Identity
The New York Times
The new lawmaking sessions open after a campaign year in which Republicans leaned on messaging that tapped into fears about transgender issues.
After a campaign year in which Republicans portrayed Democrats as deeply out of step with the mainstream on transgender issues, Republican lawmakers in statehouses across the country have filed dozens of proposals aimed at limiting the extent to which trans people can be recognized according to their gender identity.
The flood of proposed bills go beyond the limits states have enacted in recent years on sports participation and medical treatments for transgender minors. This year’s proposals cover a broader set of restrictions, or augment existing ones, across a wider range of states.
Several bills aim to extend regulations on trans youth to apply to adults as well. Others would insert definitions into state codes restricting legal recognition of a person’s gender to their sex on their original birth certificate. Others would prohibit public schools from including the concept of gender identity in class discussions.
Many social conservatives said they viewed the results of the election, after Republicans portrayed Democrats as too permissive on questions of gender-transition treatments and trans athletes, as a mandate to limit recognition of transgender identity at the state level.
Republicans were able to make transgender issues “central to this victory,” said May Mailman, director of the Independent Women’s Law Center, a conservative legal group, because “most Americans know that some sex differences are meaningful.” Given Republican gains in November, Ms. Mailman said she hoped that Democrats would see that “bills like this are not controversial.”
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