“If we are caught out dancing in public, or we are accused of dancing in public, or just being in public in general, there could be serious consequences. Some of us could be charged with sex crimes,' said Zara Crystal.
, which give an insight into the kind of legislation conservatives will be pushing this year. These include a bill that would prevent transgender girls in public schools from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity, two bills that would ban gender-affirming medical care for minors, and another that prohibits books about “gender identity” in public libraries.
North Dakota’s state house, which has a Republican supermajority, passed a bill last week that mandates that birth certificates in the state must record an infant’s sex as male or female, and defines sex as “organs, chromosomes, and hormone profile present at birth.” The bill will now continue to the Senate.
“I am glad to see its recommendation, but the larger committee discussion still involves the ‘rights’ of people not to call others by their preferred pronouns,” said Kristin Nelson, co-founder of Fargo-based Project RAI, an organization that supports queer and trans youth and their families. The slate of anti-trans bills proposed in North Dakota are not outliers, says Reed. Many Republican-majority state houses are pursuing similar legislation. Tennessee has already enacted a restrictive birth certificate law like the one under discussion in North Dakota, and lawmakers have also proposed another to ban gender-affirming health care for minors. Similar bills are proposed in Kansas, Texas, and South Carolina.
“We knew 2023 was going to be bad. What we didn’t expect, and what surprised me a little bit, was that the anti-trans candidates didn’t sweep. They didn’t have a good election,” says Reed. “And yet they’ve doubled down during the legislative cycle.” “There are 13 of these bills. Each one of them attacking a different part of queer life,” she said. “They are attempting to erase this out of the public space and they are attempting a hands-off approach at ending queer life by means of forcing us to suicide.”
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