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Here is a quick rundown of where we are with anti-trans attacks in state legislatures after a grueling week - with many similar weeks to come. Some good news and some bad news.
In South Dakota, an anti-trans bill, HB 1076, passed the House. The bill is a gratuitous attack on trans people, barring updates to birth certificates and codifying the idea that one is forever confined to the sex they were assigned at birth.
The bill was voted down in committee, but ever-committed to attacking trans people, lawmakers smoked it out onto the house floor and it passed. We fight on in the Senate, if it passes, we sue. Raise the alarms and tell lawmakers in #SDLeg to vote NO on HB1076.
In Montana, HB112, a bill attacking trans kids in sports, passed the House and moves on to the Senate. Though lawmakers claim women and girls who are trans pose a threat to women's sports, every major women's rights organization disagrees.
Here is @WomensSportsFdn explaining how protecting trans athletes from discrimination helps all women. https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/media_statement/wsf-statement-on-president-bidens-executive-order-on-preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation/
And here is the brief that hundreds of athletes in women's sports signed opposing these bills in our challenge to HB500, the bill Idaho passed last year. https://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/press_release/billie-jean-king-megan-rapinoe-and-candace-parker-join-nearly-200-athletes-supporting-trans-youth-participation-in-sports/
On the good news side, the anti-trans health care bill in Montana, HB113, which would have cut off health care to trans youth and barred health care moving forward, died in the House. Such a relief and the product of incredible organizing.
Many new bills have been filed. In Oklahoma, Iowa, and Tennessee we can expect brutal fights to defend trans lives and will need to start gearing up for those fights now.
Here is the link to the ACLU tracker of these bills. Onward. https://www.aclu.org/legislation-affecting-lgbt-rights-across-country
