Sunday is Transgender Day of Remembrance, an international observance honoring victims of anti-transgender violence. In states that saw GOP statehouse gains, trans residents are bracing for the possibility of new or reintroduced legislation targeting them.
. Mitchell County Republican Sen. Ralph Hise, sponsor of the former, did not respond to messages inquiring whether he plans to reintroduce the bill.Cooper spokesperson Mary Scott Winstead said the governor will continue advocating for transgender North Carolinians, who too often “face inexcusable and unacceptable violence.”
In neighboring Tennessee, the GOP-controlled legislature announced after Election Day that its first priority will be to ban medical providers from altering a child’s hormones or performing surgeries that enable them to present as a gender different from their biological sex.says youths experiencing gender dysphoria can start taking hormones — estrogen or testosterone — at age 14.
Katherine Turk, a historian of women, gender and sexuality at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the recent surge in anti-trans legislation follows a historical pattern of pushback after“Increased visibility often brings increased vulnerability,” Corrigan said. “Several states that have introduced these harmful bills have also seen elevated rates of fatal violence against trans folks, especially Black trans women.
Events for the Transgender Day of Remembrance were planned throughout the world Sunday against the backdrop of aKori Hennessey, education and programs director at the LGBT Center of Raleigh, had already organized a Sunday evening vigil outside the Governor’s Mansion in Raleigh. “With every attack on our community, physical attacks but also legislative, our supporters become more outspoken,” said Hennessey, who is nonbinary. “We’re hopeful it’ll happen again. In the meantime, we’ll be at the governor’s doorstep reminding him that we’re here, and we’re worth fighting for.”Hannah Schoenbaum is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.
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