Recent measures in Florida, Texas and elsewhere serve to traumatize trans children and their families, uphold ideas that trans children are inherently troubled, and go against medical advice
On Monday, it became illegal to talk about gender identity or sexual orientation in hundreds of classrooms throughout the state of Florida. This law is one of historic numbers of proposed laws and measures targeting trans youth in Texas, Arizona, Alabama, and more than one dozen other U.S. states.
In Idaho, where lawmakers debated a law making it a felony to provide trans-affirmative medical care, a trans teenager testified that the idea of going through puberty made her contemplate suicide. In Kentucky, a 12-year-old described her sadness at learning she could not join a field hockey team because she is transgender.
These laws don’t merely compel vulnerable people to perform their terror and vulnerability for audiences of lawmakers, media and judges in hopes of reversing, vetoing or voting down these efforts. They force petrified children and families to lobby for human dignity.
So, why put these laws in place? Since political orientation is strongly correlated with perspective on trans acceptance, trans youth have become an expedient vehicle for showcasing one’s conservatism. This is most evident when you consider that that these mandates and proposed bills contravene the advice of every major medical, psychiatric and pediatric organization in the United States.
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