News Roundup

KS: SB55 vetoed

• 2021-05-04 Kansas Senate fails attempt to override Democratic governor's veto by just one vote

UK: Hate Group Gets Charity Status

• 2021-04-20 Charity Commission confirms registration of LGB Alliance
  • official Tweet via

LGB Alliance is a group which pointedly excludes trans people and interests (hence LBG instead of LGBT).

This is probably not so much an example of the government promoting hate-groups as it is hate-groups learning how to work the system.

AR: 2 new laws

• 2021-03-25 Arkansas governor signs transgender sports ban into law
• 2021-03-26
  • Arkansas governor signs bill allowing medical workers to refuse treatment to LGBTQ people
  • Arkansas governor signs medical conscience objections law

FL HB 1475: Trans Girls Must Compete as Boys, Cis Girls Will Be Groped

• 2021-03-24 Florida trans community speaks out against youth sports bill
• 2021-04-14 Florida House votes to block transgender athletes from girls’ school sports teams
• 2021-04-15
  • Florida House passes anti-transgender bill that would allow for genital examinations of high school athletes
  • Florida’s GOP-Controlled House Passes Anti-Trans Bill Targeting Young Athletes
• 2021-04-20 bill dies in Senate

MS: SB 2536

This bill was signed into law in March, and will take effect 2021-07-01.

• official text
• 2021-03-11 Mississippi governor signs bill banning trans athletes from school sports

NC: Multiple bills

From the Human Rights Campaign:

• HB 358 would ban transgender girls from playing sports that match their gender identity.
• SB 514 would prohibit transgender people under the age of 21 from receiving best practice, medically necessary and affirming care while penalizing medical providers. It would also force government officials like teachers to notify parents if students demonstrate gender nonconforming behavior, and it would expressly protect the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy.
• SB 515 would allow any medical provider to discriminate against patients by allowing providers the option to refuse care to anyone to whom they morally object to on the basis of conscience.

...and also, being gay is apparently still not ok in NC:

• 2021-04-13 Grooms turned away from wedding venue in North Carolina for precisely the reason you might expect

TX SB 1646: Trans Care = Abuse

Texas Senate Bill 1646, introduced 2021-03-29, would have defined giving kids puberty blockers "for the purpose of gender transitioning or gender reassignment" as child-abuse. Note that it specifically excludes (a) intersex kids and (b) uses other than transgender therapy; it is therefore squarely targeted at transgender kids.

The bill appears to have died by being "left pending in committee", but there's nothing to stop parts of it from being re-introduced into other legislation.

• 2021-03-29 full text
• 2021-04-14 Cruel Texas Bill Brands Parents of Trans Kids “Child Abusers" video by Jesse Gender: a trans woman explains the problem