Lesson Plan: A Wave of Legislation That Seeks to Regulate the Lives of Transgender Youths

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2 years ago

Featured Article: “G.O.P. State Lawmakers Push a Growing Wave of Anti-Transgender Bills” by Maggie Astor (Note: You can also listen to this article.)

Over the past three years, Republican state lawmakers have put forward a barrage of bills to regulate the lives of transgender youths, restricting the sports teams they can join, bathrooms they can use and medical care they can receive.

But even by those standards, the 2023 legislative season stands out for the aggressiveness with which lawmakers are pushing into new territory, writes Maggie Astor.

In her piece, published Jan. 25, she reported that there were more than 150 anti-transgender bills proposed in at least 25 state legislatures. By mid-April, there were more than 400 bills in at least 45 states. At least 29 of those bills have become law.

What is in these bills? Why are they being introduced? Who is behind them? And what are the implications for the lives of transgender people? In this lesson we invite students to explore these questions broadly and then share their reactions in our related Student Opinion forum.