The Transgender Laws States Passed This Year
Statehouses around the country this year have been consumed by fights over laws governing transgender people.
Seventeen states during their most recent legislative sessions passed restrictions on medical care for transgender people, joining just three other states that passed similar bans in the last two years. A series of other laws passed regulate which bathrooms transgender people can use and whether schools can affirm transgender children’s identities.
Already many of these laws are being challenged in court, and judges are scrutinizing their precise wording. A federal judge in Arkansas last week struck down that state’s law forbidding medical treatments for children and teenagers seeking gender transitions. Earlier this month, a Florida judge sided with families seeking to block the state’s law banning gender transition care for minors, saying that the ban is likely to be found to be unconstitutional.
Amid the fighting, it’s easy to overlook the text of the laws themselves, which can get clinical very quickly.
Source: The New York Times
