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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.
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In 2019, then state Rep. Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, turned heads with his comments saying he did not want to continue attacking the gay community. As House speaker, however, some say he has not been forceful enough in defending transgender Texans from similar attacks. Credit: Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune
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Dade Phelan, a Republican state representative from conservative southeast Texas, turned heads in 2019 when he said publicly that he was “done talking about bashing on the gay community” in the Legislature, session after session.
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We Have a Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity to Protect LGBTQ People From Discrimination. Will the Senate Take It? Time 9 hrs ago Rosemary Ketchum © Erich Schlegel Images for Human Rights Campaign/AP LGBTQ advocates including representatives from Equality Texas, the Transgender Education Network of Texas, Texas Freedom Network, ACLU of Texas, Lambda Legal, medical and health care professionals, and parents of transgender children rally at the Texas State Capitol on May 4, 2021 in Austin to stop proposed medical care ban legislation that would criminalize gender-affirming care.
It’s been just over 40 years since the assassination of Harvey Milk, the trailblazing gay activist who became one of the country’s first out LGBTQ public officials when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. And on May 22 we mark the pioneer’s birthday with Harvey Milk Day. In the time since his death, hundreds of LGBTQ people have been elected to public office
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