At least 20 American states have recently filed anti-trans bills according to LGBTQ Nation, the majority of which aim to limit trans youth’s access to gender-affirming healthcare or their participation in school sports.
31 bills have been filed in total, with Georgia representative Philip Singleton filing a bill on January 4 that makes it the seventeenth state to consider a bill that would ban trans girls from competing in sporting categories which align with their gender identity. Jen Slipakoff, the mother of a 13-year-old transgender student-athlete in Georgia, strongly criticised the creators of the new bill: “I just feel like in the time that we’re in right now – in a global pandemic – we’re going into our second year of being in.