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While most Americans would favor laws protecting transgender people from discrimination in jobs, housing and public spaces, more than 50 percent hold beliefs that police transgender athletes through bio-essentialist notions, as evident in the results from a recent Pew Research Center survey.
Transgender youth’s access to lifesaving healthcare, sport and affirming educational spaces has been restricted in 21 states that have passed some kind of anti-trans legislation introduced by Republican-led coordinated attacks.
These attacks are indefinitely shaping public perception on transness, through a reinforcement of gender essentialist notions that reduce everyone – including our cisters – to their bodies.
More than 40 percent of Americans favor laws that make it illegal for healthcare professionals to provide lifesaving gender-affirming care; police trans folks by preventing their access to bathrooms; make it illegal for public schools to have gender-affirming conversations.
Trans youth know who they are, and bills like these are putting lives at risk: More than half of trans children were at risk of suicide this past year, and access to gender-affirming care is linked to being at lower risk of attempting suicide by nearly 40 percent in transgender and nonbinary youth.
Trans folks who have access to gender-affirming hormone therapy in their teens have better mental health than those who wait until adulthood or don’t have access to treatment they need – odds of severe psychological distress were reduced by 222 percent for trans youth who had access to hormones early adolescence, according to research on 27,000 people, led by Stanford.