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https://www.them.us/story/anti-trans-bills-2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmP-NAKweHw
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/2021-set-a-record-for-anti-transgender-bills-heres-how-you-can-support-the-community
https://19thnews.org/2021/11/state-legislation-transgender/
https://www.glsen.org/activity/transgender-inclusion-high-school-athletics
https://cns.utexas.edu/news/victimization-of-transgender-youths-linked-to-suicidal-thoughts-substance-abuse
It’s really disturbing to read these terrible things propagated because of intolerance, hate, and a lack of education. We need to elect better politicians.
After a record-breaking wave of anti-transgender legislation endangering access to health, safety and sports in 2021, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is carrying on the distasteful legacy attacking trans youth for clout for her 2022 re-election campaign.
Last week, Noem released a full blown anti-trans campaign promoting a bill to ban girls and femme folks who are trans from playing sports: “In South Dakota, only girls play girls sports. Why? Because of Governor Kristi Noem’s leadership,” the ad starts.
The ad follows a theme of erasure in line with bills in 31 states that attempted to ban trans youth from participating in sports in 2021: leaving out the word ‘transgender’ as a tactic to gatekeep womanhood to cisgender people.
“In 102 anti-trans bills in seven states, the word ‘transgender’ appears just eight times, part of an effort to deny trans kids’ existence even as the legislation affects what they can and cannot do,” the 19th reported about the 2021 legislative attacks on trans youth.
Mainstream ‘science’ behind the ‘sex-binary’ is constructed to repress all women by non-scientific understanding that erases intersex people while gatekeeping womanhood through white supremicist-patriarchal ideas of femininity that mold cisgender women and girls into a category that needs ‘protection.’
Excluding trans girls and femme youth from participating in sports has negative outcomes for trans and non-trans youth through policing of gender by invasive procedures and tests that have been used against Black athletes like Caster Semenya.
The ability to participate fully in school is critical for student-wellbeing and 56% of LGBTQ team members report feeling a positive sense of belonging in school, according to GLSEN, which researches policies designed to protect LGBTQ+ students.
These attacks on trans youth’s right to be able to be who they are has real-life consequences.
“Transgender adolescents are twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts as the general population, and they are up to four times as likely to engage in substance use. Depression and school-based victimization factored heavily into the disparities in both cases,” researchers at UT Austin found.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255