Transgender rights are taking center stage Tuesday in North Carolina as the GOP-controlled General Assembly considers legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and trans participation in sports.
The legislative push comes in the dwindling days of the North Carolina session and as many Republican-led state legislatures round out a record year of legislation targeting transgender residents.
If it passes the Senate on Tuesday, the bill prohibiting trans girls from playing on girls' middle school, high school and college sports teams could return to the House floor for final approval as early as Wednesday. Both chambers passed different versions before legislative leaders opted to proceed with the House bill.
Bilodeau, a high school sophomore from Pittsboro, was the only trans person given time to testify Tuesday morning in committee. Trans youth already experience higher rates of suicidal ideation than their cisgender peers, he told lawmakers, and this legislation could make that tragic situation even worse.
Rep. Timothy Reeder, a Pitt County Republican, urged lawmakers to reject claims that gender-affirming care is safe and well-researched. She is now part of a small group of "detransitioners," or people who have stopped or reversed their gender transition, who have traveled this year to statehouses nationwide to affirm Republican claims that procedures offered to minors are irreversible and that regret is common. In treatment guidelines issued last year, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health said evidence of later regret is scant.
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