Anti-Trans Bills Are Wildly Unpopular. But Here’s Why the GOP Keeps Passing Them.

Even though lawmakers across the country are throwing their weight behind legislation to block transgender athletes from participating on the teams that match their gender identity, the presumptive audience for these bills—Republicans—are less than enthused. Only 29 percent of Republicans said they “support a bill that prohibits transgender student athletes from joining sports teams that […]

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Even a Republican Governor Thinks Denying Health Care to Trans Kids Is Going Too Far

Asa Hutchinson, governor of Arkansas, speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, on Tuesday, May 28, 2019. (Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed a bill that would’ve blocked trans kids from gender-affirming health care on Monday, because even the stalwart Republican recognized it went too far.  “This […]

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