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A swathe of anti-trans bills have been pitched by Republican lawmakers in the US to attack healthcare access for young transgender people.
At least 10 anti-trans bills have been introduced in seven different US states in the first few weeks of 2021. Many target trans youth and gender-affirming healthcare, while others seek to ban trans people from sports and bathrooms, or redefine “child abuse” to include parents who support their trans kids.
This places the start of 2021 in a similar position to 2020, when more than a dozen bills attacking trans youth were put forward in the first month. This led to LGBT+ advocates based in the US concluding that lawmakers were being influenced by conservative anti-LGBT+ groups.