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Anti-transgender legislation reignites classroom hardships for trans students
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Classroom hardships amid wave of anti-trans laws
A record number of anti-transgender bills have been introduced in state legislatures in 2021, according to the Human Rights Campaign.Eric Gay/AP
Esmée Silverman, an openly transgender senior in Massachusetts, says her high school experience had a lot of its ups and downs . mostly downs.
Silverman, 19, came out to her close friends and family in her freshman year amid the Trump administration s rollback of protections for the transgender community. Then-President Donald Trump rescinded protections that allowed transgender students to use restrooms that matched their gender identity and placed a ban on transgender troops in the military. She said these laws furthered anti-trans sentiment among her peers, and the pressures from the national political climate have made life as a young transgender teen harder.
Americans strongly support trans service members being in the military even as they say trans athletes should compete according to the sex listed on their birth certificates.
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