Human Rights Campaign finds state lawmakers have introduced 44 anti-transgender bills already this year,including 23 aimed at childrenState lawmakers have introduced twice as many bills targeting transgender rights since the start of the 2016 legislative session as in all of 2015, according to a modern report from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).
HRC has identified 44 anti-transgender bills, and in 16 states,out of more than 175 pieces of legislation that attempt to curtail lesbian, homosexual, and bisexual and transgender rights. Of those 44 bills,23 are aimed at transgender children, with most proposing to bar transgender students from using girls’ or boys locker rooms and bathrooms or from participating in men’s and women’s sports teams if not assigned that gender at birth. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com