Mississippi Republicans pass anti-trans bathroom bill at last-minute
The bill would ban trans folks from using bathrooms, locker rooms, and dorms aligned with their gender identity.
May 4, 2024
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The bill would ban trans folks from using bathrooms, locker rooms, and dorms aligned with their gender identity.
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves claimed these procedures are "being pushed onto our children through radical activists."
Both houses of the legislature have OK'd the ban, and Gov. Tate Reeves says he's ready to stop what he calls "sick experimental treatments."
The governor said the law was necessary because the president "encourages transgenderism."
Mississippi’s new law stands in contrast to the expanded federal rules against discrimination under Title IX.
Republican lawmakers could not come to an agreement on two bills before their deadline.
It's not certain whether the bills will be signed into law, but both governors are anti-trans Republicans.
Activists say the measure signed by Gov. Kristi Noem will enable discrimination against LGBTQ+ people and others.
The Mississippi bill would keep transgender girls out of girls' sports, while the South Dakota legislation is a so-called religious freedom measure that would enable discrimination.
State-level legislation aimed at transgender student athletes, along with anti-LGBTQ+ "religious freedom" bills, is proliferating.
Most of them seek to keep trans girls and women off of female sports teams or prevent trans youth from receiving gender-affirming medical care.
Arkansas becomes the latest state to bar trans student athletes from competing under their gender identity.
The bill, which would keep trans girls out of girls' school sports, appeared to be dead in committee last week.
Donald Trump and other Republican politicians and pundits don't seem to quite understand how a calendar works.
Brandon Boulware argued eloquently against trans-exclusionary legislation, and video of his testimony has received thousands of views.
Actor and activist Kit Williamson is a Magnolia State boy who will forever love his first home.
The amendment failed, but it received the votes of supposed Republican ally Collins and conservative Democrat Manchin.
Bills aimed at keeping transgender girls and women off female interscholastic sports teams are moving forward in North Dakota, Mississippi, and Utah.
Amid the surge of anti-trans bills in America, this Mississippi family is still trying to raise trans kids in a faith that tends to have a strict binary view of gender.
It comes as more harmful bills are signed into law -- a discriminatory "religious refusals" bill in Arkansas and an anti-transgender sports bill in Tennessee.