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| + | ==UK: Hate Group Gets Charity Status== | ||
| + | * '''2021-04-20''' [https://www.gov.uk/government/news/charity-commission-confirms-registration-of-lgb-alliance Charity Commission confirms registration of LGB Alliance] | ||
| + | ** [https://twitter.com/ChtyCommission/status/1384464526482018304 official Tweet] [https://twitter.com/biggusbennus1/status/1384484333487116288 via] | ||
| + | LGB Alliance is a group which pointedly excludes trans people and interests (hence LBG instead of LGBT). | ||
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| + | 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== | ==AR: 2 new laws== | ||
* '''2021-03-25''' [https://apnews.com/article/arkansas-asa-hutchinson-kristi-noem-gender-identity-62fb40814df14f67780f1b57c8d522db Arkansas governor signs transgender sports ban into law] | * '''2021-03-25''' [https://apnews.com/article/arkansas-asa-hutchinson-kristi-noem-gender-identity-62fb40814df14f67780f1b57c8d522db Arkansas governor signs transgender sports ban into law] | ||
Revision as of 13:32, 20 April 2021
UK: Hate Group Gets Charity Status
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
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
MS: SB 2536
This bill was signed into law in March, and will take effect 2021-07-01.
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