Civil Rights Anti-Trans Bills

Nearly 550 college athletes have demanded that the NCAA withdraw championships from states that have anti-transgender sports laws. The nation's leading children's health and welfare organizations, which include more than 7 million youth-serving providers and over 1000 child welfare organizations. These organizations banned together and issued a statement urging lawmakers across the country to reject dozens of bills that threaten LGBTQ people, especially transgender youths. Anti-LGBTQ organizations, not lawmakers or the public interest, are driving this fight. 

These bills come from the same forces that drove previous anti-equality fights by pushing anti-trans bills across statehouses. Hateful anti-LGBTQ organizations like the Heritage Foundation, Alliance Defending Freedom (designated by Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group), and Eagle Forum among others. For example, Montana’s HB 112, the first anti-transgender sports bill to be passed through a legislative chamber in any state, was written by the Alliance Defending Freedom. Trans equality is popular: Anti-transgender legislation is a low priority, even among Trump voters. In a 10-swing-state poll conducted by the Human Rights Campaign & Hart Research Group last fall: At least 60% of Trump voters across each of the 10 swing states say transgender people should be able to live freely and openly. At this point, it's obvious. It's not the voters, it's all the senators and legislators banning together in an attempt to suppress trans people as much as they can. 

States that pass anti-transgender legislation suffer economic, legal, reputational harm. For example, the bathroom bills introduced in Texas and North Carolina and an anti-transgender sports ban in Idaho, show that there would be or has been devastating fallout. Idaho is the only state to have passed an anti-trans sport banning, though that law was quickly disarmed by the federal district court.

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