Southern Anti-Trans Laws Are Uprooting Families -- And Leaving Them With Impossible Choices
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Rural communities had long accepted trans kids — but lawmakers in red states went after them anyway.

Families in the South had just learned to navigate care for their transgender kids when a slew of new laws put their health and futures in limbo

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As bans on gender-affirming care for trans youth are signed into law across the country, families like Chrissie and Daniel’s are facing new and constantly changing obstacles to accessing vital health care. Twenty-one states have enacted laws that restrict care, and the highest concentration of these bills are where Chrissie and Daniel live, in the South. In this region alone, more than two thirds of states have an active ban as of Jan. 1, creating a sprawling landmass — more than 1.1 million square miles, larger than the entire country of Mexico — that families have to get through in order for their kids to access care.

    • Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
      12·
      8 months ago

      This is how they gerrymander the whole country.

      Use hatred and intolerance to force enough people into states where the electoral college renders their vote useless. Shift a handful of voters via hatred you can lock down a state, lock down the right handful of states and a minority controls the nation.

      • quindraco@lemm.ee
        11·
        8 months ago

        That’s not how this works. You’re getting it backwards. Every time a red state forces blue residents to move to a blue state, they reduce the power of gerrymandering/the broken power of the electoral college, because that reduces the extent to which people are “represented” by reps who disagree with them. Do it enough and you’ll shift whole.EC votes.

        Edit: this is supposed to be in reply to Beetschnapps. My comment keeps seeming to come out in reaponse to the wrong comment, very strange.

        • stembolts@programming.dev
          108·
          8 months ago

          Involuntary victims?

          If so, who is forcing them?

          I would like to hear from one of the victims, what do they say should be done?

          Edit : The comment I was responding to is now gone, but it was confusing and was worded to make it sound like trans people were “genociding” others, or that their act of existing was a genocide. It was strangely worded but certainly seemed anti-trans. And it is of course possible I was misunderstanding their intent, or that I had a reading comprehension failure. Thus the questioning nature of this comment. But I notice that since that comment is gone, mine now appears to be questioning the existence of trans people. This is not what I am doing, I fully support the rights of the transgender community and won’t tolerate bigotry. Oh also, I did read the article, it’s disheartening and awful that the act of existing can prompt people to want to harm you using legislation as a weapon. Those lawmakers are ignorant cowards who don’t listen to medical professionals.