In the Republican States, laws restricting access to abortion or the rights of LGBTQ people multiply. Faced with the risk of defeat in mid-term elections, Democrats are trying to establish safeguards.
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The forehead of “blue” is organized. While the mid-term election approach, in November, strengthens the determination of Republicans to mobilize their base on social issues, the democratic states are preparing for the great conservative recoil. Defense of abortion to that of transgender people, the progressive camp tries to take the lead.
Delivering from Donald Trump’s defeat, Republicans are taken from legislative bulimia, spurred by Florida and Texas, spearheads of the new conservative revolution. From Arizona to Idaho or Oklahoma, the right multiplies antiavalness laws, measures hostile to transgender people, or limiting the influence of “Woke” educators, sensitized to discrimination in all kinds, in education audience. The “Traditional Values” camp hopes to exploit the majority of 6-3 he holds to the Supreme Court of the United States since the arrival of Judge Amy Coney Barrett in October 2020.
On the launch of Florida, which adopted it at the end of March, a dozen states, from Alabama to Ohio and Louisiana, “said the law so” do not Say gay “, which forbids to evoke the subjects of gender identity or sexual orientation at elementary school. Sexual education is not on the program, but opponents believe that the legislation is intended primarily to intimidate all teachers.
300 anti-LGBTQ texts voted in “red” states
According to the Human Rights Campaign Association, some 300 anti-LGBTQ laws were introduced into the “red” states, almost half of which concern transgender persons. On April 8, Alabama adopted legislation that punishes ten years in prison, issuing hormones or treatments to block puberty among young people under 19 years of age. Texas and Idaho also offered to criminalize the help of helping young people in their gender transition, even if they are their families, and even if they are going to look for treatment in other states. In Arizona, a bill plans to force teachers to report to parents if their child comes out at school.
In 2016, the traditionalist camp was obsessed with the access of transgender people to the toilet in public places. Today, it is by their participation in sports competitions. A countercurrent, two Republican governors dared to put their veto to legislation prohibiting students to join “non-birth sex” teams. “I rarely saw so much fear and aggression directed against such a small number,” lamented Spencer Cox, the governor of Utah, arguing that, on the 75,000 state high school students, four young people Transgender only participate in school sport. Eric Holcomb, the Governor of Indiana, did not seize the urgency, either. “The presupposition is that there is a problem in the School Sport in Indiana who justifies an intervention by the state authorities, he noted. I did not find any substance on this statement.”
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