226 bills target LGBTQ Americans this year. One organization is behind a lot of them.

[Behind the Aegis]

The group Equality Federation is currently tracking 226 anti-LGBTQ bills being considered in state legislatures throughout the country, and one organization in particular is responsible for many of the bills.

Many of the bills are similar and target the transgender community, and specifically transgender youth.

“The targeting of kids is really unique this year,” Rose Saxe, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT and HIV Project, told NBC News. “It’s really shocking, the depth of attack on trans youth.”

In January alone, more than twelve states have introduced bills that target transgender youth. The Associated Press reported that legislation banning doctors from providing transition-related care to transgender young people has been proposed in Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, Florida, South Carolina, and South Dakota.

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Straight privilege (heterosexism), homophobia, and transphobia in action. Too many ignore the very real perils facing the LGBTQ community.

[chowder66]

1. The name of the organization is Project Blitz now known as Freedom For All

Founded in 2016 by former U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA), Project Blitz — which has since renamed itself Freedom For All — provides legislatures with templates and strategy to pass anti-LGBTQ bills.

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5. It's important to learn about these hate groups and tell others about them

"Freedom for All" is the sort of anodyne name these bigots dream up for themselves, effective in gulling the non-attentive (and let's face it, who can pay attention to all of it?). It's up to us to keep ourselves informed, and tell others that "Freedom for All" is as Orwellian a name as you can get.

[chowder66]

6. I whole-heartedly agree. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. It's a divide and conquer strategy.

[MerryBlooms]

3. Heinous

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4. DURec

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7. And the gop-ers in the Ohio Gen Assembly do not lack for fear, bigotry and stupidity

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/02/11/ohio-bill-would-punish-doctors-who-provide-gender-affirming-treatment-transgender-kids/4715761002/


(BTW Jackie Borchart is a very smart and good reporter-her twitter-. JMBorchardt

Snip--"COLUMBUS – A new Ohio bill seeks to restrict gender-identity medical treatments for transgender youth by penalizing the doctors who prescribe them.

Republican Reps. Ron Hood of Ashville and Bill Dean of Xenia plan to introduce the "Protect Vulnerable Children Act" this week.

Hood told The Enquirer physicians could be charged with a third-degree felony for attempting therapeutic or surgical procedures intended to alter the gender of someone under age 18. Parents could also file civil lawsuits against physicians for providing treatment.

"My number one concern, by far and away, is the irreversible nature of these procedures," Hood said. "These procedures, most of them, lead to sterilization. And these things are not reversible."


More at article. Same tactics as restrictions on women's health care, go at the doctors and medical staff.