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.
This has become a record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation, with over 100 bills introduced in state legislatures across the country. Most of the legislation being debated targets transgender children, with over 30 bills intended to deny trans kids lifesaving gender-affirming medical care and over 60 bills intended to deny trans children the ability to participate in sports. With these laws passing in states across the country, we have to take a stand and let trans youth know they are not alone. Trans kids need to be told again and again that they are supported, loved, and celebrated, especially when legislators attempt to use them for political gain, stripping their rights and enacting serious damage in the process.
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Kansas City mother fights Missouri legislature s transgender athlete ban
KC mother fights MO legislature s transgender athlete ban
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Itâs a fight Debi Jackson describes as âexhausting,â but one the mother of two is devoted to continuing.
âShe just wants to be a regular teenager, Jackson said. She just wants to deal with all the things every other 13-year-old is dealing with without this additional weight on her shoulders.
Jacksonâs 13-year-old daughter, Avery, is transgender. She socially transitioned when she was 4.
âOnce we switched pronouns and started saying that she is our daughter and our sonâs sister, this light came through and you could just see it and (Avery) glowed, Jackson said. She became so happy and so confident.