Arizona, Utah Republicans act to kill anti-trans bills
While Texas’ Republican leaders are scrambling even further right and are attacking the state’s transgender residents in an effort to energize their base voters, Republican lawmakers in Arizona and the Republican governor of Utah are instead helping kill harmful bills targeting transgender people, especially trans youth. LGBTQNation reports that Republican lawmakers in Arizona had helped stop three pieces of legislation that would have kept trans people from using bathrooms and locker rooms and from accessing gender-affirming healthcare.
The bills they blocked also would have prohibited use of non-binary gender markers on government documents. Republican state Rep.
Michelle Udall blocked a bill in committee that would have allowed parents to sue schools that let trans student use bathroom and locker room facilities appropriate their gender identity.
Republican House Speaker Russell Bowers helped stop legislation that would have allowed only male or female gender markers on state documents.
