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** [https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2021/04/15/florida-house-passes-anti-transgender-bill-that-would-allow-for-genital-examinations-of-high-school-athletes Florida House passes anti-transgender bill that would allow for genital examinations of high school athletes]
 
** [https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2021/04/15/florida-house-passes-anti-transgender-bill-that-would-allow-for-genital-examinations-of-high-school-athletes Florida House passes anti-transgender bill that would allow for genital examinations of high school athletes]
 
** [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-anti-trans-bill_n_6077da61e4b020e576c0ba14 Florida’s GOP-Controlled House Passes Anti-Trans Bill Targeting Young Athletes]
 
** [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-anti-trans-bill_n_6077da61e4b020e576c0ba14 Florida’s GOP-Controlled House Passes Anti-Trans Bill Targeting Young Athletes]
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* '''2021-04-20''' [https://twitter.com/OmariJHardy/status/1384579774283194378 bill dies in Senate]
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==MS: SB 2536==
 
==MS: SB 2536==
 
This bill was signed into law in March, and will take effect 2021-07-01.
 
This bill was signed into law in March, and will take effect 2021-07-01.

Revision as of 23:54, 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

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

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:

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.