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Anti-Transgender Bills Are Active in Dozens of States. Here’s How Trans Folks and Allies Are Fighting Back
May 27, 2021
Carmarion D. Anderson-Harvey says that personal testimony helped push back an Alabama bill that would ve banned healthcare for trans youth.
Courtesy of William P. Harvey III
This past spring, Carmarion D. Anderson-Harvey, a Black trans woman who is Alabama state director for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), faced, with her activist colleagues, a political double assault: Advancing through Alabama’s overwhelmingly Republican legislature were not one but
two anti-transgender bills: one to criminalize gender-affirming medical treatment for trans young people, the other to ban trans students from playing on school sports teams consistent with their gender identity.
Transhood Can Do Good
In October, HBO released Transhood , a compelling and beautifully made documentary that captures the journey of four families over the course of five years and helps humanize the experiences of transgender youth.
Debi Jackson, a founding member of HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality Council, and her daughter Avery are one of the four families, all living in Kansas City, who opened their homes to the filmmaker with the hope that their stories their honesty, their authenticity, their struggles will help other families who are on a similar journey to understand and support their transgender or gender expansive children.