Transphobes Gone Wild! Speaking from ignorance, Alabama State Representative Wesley Allen paves a road for putting doctors in prison

Headline:  al.com, 4/7/2022

The bill would make it a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for doctors to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones or to perform surgeries on transgender minors to help them transition. Doctors who provide the care say no such surgeries are done on minors in Alabama.

  

3/25/2022 update, "Where transphobes rule:  States where GOP legislators banned transgender girls from female sports". starts here.

Utah joins the Hall of Shame and Republican Kera Birkeland leads the celebration!

 

Other members include Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and West Virginia.

Headline from Wisconsin State Journal, 3/25/2022

Friday's deliberations came after more than a year of debate and negotiation between social conservatives and LGBTQ advocates. Republican sponsor Rep. Kera Birkeland worked with Cox and civil rights activists at Equality Utah before introducing legislation that would require transgender student-athletes to go before a government-appointed commission. 

The proposal, although framed as a compromise, failed to gain traction on either side. LGBTQ advocates took issue with Republican politicians appointing commission members and evaluation criteria that included body measurements such as hip-to-knee ratio. 

Then, in the final hours before the Legislature was set to adjourn earlier this month, GOP lawmakers supplanted the legislation with an all-out ban.  [emphasis added]

Original 3/22/2022 post starts here

Washington Post, 3/22/2022

Earlier this month, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) became the 11th governor to sign a bill banning transgender girls from joining female sports teams at school. The other states include Texas, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Idaho, Montana and Arkansas, and South Dakota. Republican Gov. Doug Burgum of North Dakota vetoed a similar bill last April, citing reasons similar to those Holcomb noted in his letter and adding that there has “not been a single recorded incident of a transgender girl attempting to play on a North Dakota girls’ team.”

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Wisconsin GOP transphobes UPDATE: What Babs and Kat uphold in the state legislature.  (5/25/2021)