Trans adults on edge as legislatures broaden focus beyond children

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Republican-dominated legislatures have already enacted more than 100 laws to limit LGBTQ+ rights over the past few years, but most affected adolescents and schools. Now, policymakers are increasingly turning their focus to adults.

Lawmakers in Iowa, West Virginia and other states have introduced bans on transgender people using bathrooms that align with their gender identity. Officials elsewhere are attempting to narrowly define sex in a way that will leave trans people misgendered on official documents. The head of Florida’s Department of Motor Vehicles announced in late January that the agency will no longer allow trans adults to change the gender markers on their licenses and threatened criminal charges for those who don’t comply.

So far, no legislature has outright prohibited adults from transitioning, but last year, Florida passed the nation’s first health-care restrictions for trans adults, and some within the Republican Party believe other states will soon follow its lead. A handful of legislators have said they don’t believe in the care or hope to eradicate it completely.

The lawmakers pushing the bills universally contend there should be limits on how far society goes to embrace transgender adults. Some do not believe in the concept of having a gender identity different from one’s biological sex.

“There is no such thing as gender-affirming care,” Ohio state Sen. Kristina Roegner (R) said in a January speech on the Senate floor. “You can’t affirm something that doesn’t exist.”

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Then, in April 2023, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) went a step further and announced new regulations that advocates said essentially banned the care in the state for everyone, even adults.

The ruling terrified Adams. He asked his pharmacist to give him as much testosterone as he legally could, but that only covered three months. Other trans people went online to find hormones illegally, and Adams researched those options, too. Going off testosterone was “not an option,” he said, and he planned to do whatever he could to stay on it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trans-adults-on-edge-as-legislatures-broaden-focus-beyond-children/ar-BB1ijFQd

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. The problem here is that Trans ADULTS vote!

No matter where they live, they vote and will vote!

Republican-led State legislatures may even go so far as to deny them the right to vote. Let them try. The well organized LGBTQ+ community will be heard and it will not be pretty. Democrats running for office are paying attention.

[Voltaire2]

2. It was never about the children.

That part of the propaganda campaign was ‘getting the foot in the door’.

It was always about renormalizing transphobia, and use that as a wedge to use to roll back all gay rights.

[Chi67]

5. Yep

Anyone with half a brain saw this coming.

[sanatanadharma]

3. WTF, Gender doesn't exist!!??????????

Gender doesn't exist!!??????????
“There is no such thing as gender-affirming care,” Ohio state Sen. Kristina Roegner (R) said in a January speech on the Senate floor. “You can’t affirm something that doesn’t exist.”

Ban Viagra! Obvio
If ever there was an example of (unnecessary) care based solely on gender, it is this male "I can't measure-up" insecurity that plagues the human race.

[Chi67]

4. Vote out all GOP

They have to go. They can no longer be trusted with any power at all. All they do is hurt people.

[Goddessartist]

6. One of my children

is trans. Fortunately we live in Washington State.

It's insane how awful Republicans are to humans in general, and everything else.

This is truly malicious and is messing with people's lives. Why are they so hateful? Is it fear? Lower paradigm brain?