If you’re overwhelmed by the news - and not sure where these anti-trans efforts have been successful - look no further. But as one advocate put it to Fatherly : “They’re just kids who want to play soccer and run around the track.” All these bills do is make trans kids who want to play sports with their friends feel more alone. Many other anti-trans bills aim to “save” girls’ sports by banning trans kids from playing sports as the gender they identify with. More than half of trans boys, 42% of nonbinary kids, and 30% of trans girls have attempted suicide. Children with gender dysphoria who do not receive meaningful medical care suffer tremendously. The American Medical Association, American Psychological Society, and the American Academy of Pediatrics all support gender-affirming care for trans kids. A 2020 study found that trans people who wanted to suppress their puberty but did not have access to medications to do so were 70% more likely to experience suicidal ideation than those who did receive puberty blockers. When bills that ban puberty blockers or gender-affirming care pass, trans youth suffer. That lawmakers would consider bills that would make their kids lesser citizens have something of a chilling effect. Even anti-trans bills that don’t pass have an effect on kids and their families. Because many of the bills are passing, and trans kids and their families are suffering. To date, the Trans Formations Project estimates that 150 anti-trans bills have been introduced to state House floors around the country in 2022 alone.Īccording to Petrovnia, many of these bills are failing due to the closing of state legislature sessions. They just didn’t know how.” How Do Anti-Trans Laws Harm Kids and Families? Because a lot of people, once they heard about it, wanted to help.
And there’s very little public awareness of this issue … which is a lot of why we put together this database.
“It’s really disappointing to see that there is very little media attention being drawn to it. “It’s a horrifying attack on human rights,” Petrovnia says of the recent wave of anti-trans legislation. “We have a tool that allows us to search keywords for new legislation, and then manually people search those keywords and comb through all the legislation and also respond to community feedback,” Trans Formations Project founder and president Alex Petrovnia told Fatherly. Though there are other legislation trackers online, the Trans Formations Project is unique in that not only is its database the most complete but developers and volunteers manually double-check all the information instead of leaving the work up to bots to comb the internet.