In less than a week, Republicans have made modern legislation to limit the participation of trans gender Americans in sports and have announced a federal definition of gender that has not been included in people who have not been born. The time is not in accordance with their own sex, which will lead to a phase of policy attacks on LGBTQ+ rights and freedoms. What the nation has seen before.
Almost shortly after taking office on Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that included sexual relations on biology and was restricted to men and women in terms of official documents and federal policy, which The campaign to restrict the rights of transgender Americans was fulfilled. Meanwhile, the House last Tuesday approved a law banning the participation of women and girls’ women and girls from Khwaja Saras. The bill, which is one of the first standstone anti -translated bills that a Congress chamber has been able to move beyond 2023, has also established a definition of sex, based on only someone’s “birth biology at birth.” And genetics “.
After returning to Trump’s office, Republicans controlling both Houses of Congress and conservative majority, transgender and LGBTQ+ rights supporters in the Supreme Court told Salon that they were watching to see what they had. – And how many – there will be anti -translations and provisions. To stop this legislative meeting. The approval of the anti -transgender Sports Bill, combined with the President’s Executive Order, indicates that the federal government will launch an unprecedented attack on Trans Gender Americans for at least the next two years – and this week’s movements are just the beginning.
“It’s all part of the same overall effort and parcel: among many people on the right these anti -trans -extremists that really trans genders people from our communities, out of our schools – completely out of public life Wish, “Ian Thomson, a senior lawyer for the LGBTQ, said in a phone interview.
The so-called Protection of Women and Girls in the Sports Act 2025 has passed in 218-206 votes last Tuesday with party lines and has since moved to the Senate for consideration.
The bill, which only received the support of two Democrats, needs to do a study from the Camp Peoples General, aimed at “allowing girls to compete with the negative psychological, development, participation, and social results, Being a member of a sports team, or participants in athletic programs, made for girls. “
While the majority of anti -translation legislation – and anti -LGBTQ legislation is more widely – created at the state level, David Stacey, Vice President of the Human Rights Campaign, told Salon that he was growing anti -translation. Expect numbers. Bill starting at the federal level.
“We have seen them attacking trans and LGB rights at an extraordinary level in the House for the past two years, so I fully expect that we will see the same behavior – and they Congress has given every indication for this two years. ” In a phone interview.
In the last 24 months, the Congress has seen the increasing number of anti -translation bills in 2024 with 87 and a year ago with 53 suggestions. According to the anti -trans -legging tracker, all except two failed. Data Display.
Those successful anti -transition efforts were the provisions involved in federal permission or customary legislation. A clause passed in December 2024, which eliminated gender certification care and hormone therapy coverage from military insurance, for example, was riding on a broad national defense. Permissions law For fiscal year 2025.
Lawyers are expecting anti -LGBTQ legislation in the coming months, which prohibited gender -verifying care bans and discrimination reservations around the workplace and gender expansionist Americans and major powers. Expenditure bills have been included.
Thomson said, “The riders who are particularly related to our point of view are those designed to snatch federal funds for the transgender community for health care.”
Both lawyers said they were also keeping a close eye on the suggestions targeting health care and funding. Restrictions on medical funding for gender verification care, as I have been suggested. House Bill 498Thomson said that the session was introduced, it will have “devastating” consequences for the transit people, which rely on the government -based government -driven healthcare program.
Since the most recent legislative meeting began in early January, a total of eight anti -translation bills have been introduced in Congress, most of which are aimed at Trans Gender students. Attending school sports Or Limit access To care for gender health care.
Andrew Bells, founder of the Anti -Transit Legislature Tracker, said they are expecting almost all other anti -translation bills introduced at the federal level that will focus on “reproductive biology and genetics” at birth and “fear” Will produce Bills of 2024, such as “Stop the Invasion of Women’s Spaces Act” and “Stopping the Mutilation of Women Children Act 2024.”
Bells told Salon in an email, “Whether they target sports, bathrooms, or education, bills take with fear and uncertainty because they try to get people out of public life “” “They do new definitions of terms like” male “,” woman “,” mother “, and” Father “, as well as converting the term” gender “to” gender “.
Trump’s latest Executive OrderWhich claims to be the defense of “women’s extremism”, a similar model. It only recognizes two “non -variable” sexes, male and female, and their “time of pregnancy” as a person who belongs to the sex that produces sperm and a person who respectively Eggs belong to sex.
In addition to several other provisions, Trump’s order only needs to be issued from the federal government to identify – such as visas and passports – which reflect the sex of someone assigned at birth. It also prevents the Bidin administration’s allowance of access to gender identity -based single -sex places under the Supreme Court’s Bostic vs Clayton County’s decision, which is a non -gender identification or sexual -based work -based discrimination. Was legalized.
“Trump’s executive order is a” extremely serious threat, “said Stissi,” said Stacey, “something we’ve ever seen in anything that we have ever seen before.”
However, it is unclear how much the administration will be worth it and will be ready to implement it through the administrative rule process, adding that the need for rule “tripped” the first Trump administration. Gone.
In the 2025 Games Act, the prejudiced distribution in support of the protection of women and girls does not specify whether these anti -translation bills will ever become a law because it needs Democratic support to exclude the Senate.
Only two politically weak Democrats – representative Vincent Gonzalez and Texas’s Henry Cauller joined the Republicans with the Republicans. Both represent the districts that supported Trump in last year’s elections. Gonzalez has specifically said that the Republicans have accused them of supporting the transfer of children during the 2024 election period, according to which it had a political impact. Texas Tribune.
Democrats in Congress this bill ”Child Predator Empowerment ActArgue that it jeopardizes the safety and privacy of school children and can expose them to the potential examination of their bodies.
Thomson said the limited Democrat support for the bill gives them hope that it will not go beyond the Senate. Republican lawmakers hoped that the vote would have gone astray from the party lines and that the Democrats were breaking more significantly on the issues of trans -rights and freedoms – and it did not, it argued.
Thomson said that since the majority of the Republican Senate is not near the 60 votes needed to advance the bill, they will need to vote for at least seven Democratic senators to successfully pass the law successfully. “” “I think the fact that the Democrats in the House were so united in opposition to the bill that it was a strong indication that we could expect the same from the Democrats in the Senate.”
Even then, Stissi said, the dangers posed are “very real”, even if they are immediately. He called on the Americans to express their opposition to their representatives and senators in the Congress and make comments on the rules as the administrative principle process moves forward by slowing down this process.
He said, “People really need to weigh. Now it’s time to take action, and just don’t stand quietly,” he added: “We have been able to stop many of these things in the past. I think we are not worried again but without effort, without effort. “
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