A Republican in Oklahoma has proposed legislation to ban under 26 year olds from receiving gender-affirming care. The bill’s language could also force those already in the midst of such treatments to medically detransition against their will.
Journalist Erin Reed, who reports on trans and queer topics, suggested that the bill’s language could also force young adults, already in the midst of gender-affirming care treatments, to medically detransition against their will.
If Bullard’s bill successfully becomes law, it “would medically detransition a huge portion of Oklahoma’s transgender population,”. The bill isn’t aimed at protecting people, but at erasing trans and nonbinary people, she added. “Slowly, states are moving towards an outright ban on being transgender — it is for these reasons that people have begun calling the attacks on gender-affirming care an attempt at genocide,” Reed said.
Robin Witt, vice president of the Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus, warned that the legislation could be copied in her home state and elsewhere. “Like we’ve said a million times over, this was never about protecting kids. It’s about erasing trans people from existence,”Oklahoma is fast becoming — if it’s not already — the most restrictive state against trans and nonbinary people in the U.S.
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