Recently, the Arkansas legislature overcame a governor’s veto to become the first state to outlaw transgender health care for anyone under 18. The law also made it legal for private insurance companies to deny transition care to people of any age. Arkansas won’t be the last. North Carolina has introduced an even more draconian bill, and it ups the age of consent to 21. At least 15 other states have bills in motion to outlaw healthcare to trans people.
Apparently stopping gender transition among a tiny minority of the country (we are around 1 percent of the population), is important enough that our opponents have dedicated years of time and money and organizing and blogging for an outcome that they know, factually, will hurt — and kill — trans people.
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