Anti-LGBTQ politicians push hate to score cheap political points with their base.
Of the estimated 332 million citizens living in the United States, 1.3 million adults and 300,000 youth ages 13 to 17 identify as transgender, equaling half a percent and 1.4 percent of the population respectively, according to a report published by Williams Institute.
For the last two decades, anti-LGBTQ politicians have attempted to sow disinformation about LGBTQ+ people’s rights to score cheap political points with their base.
Transgender and non-binary people have been the target of many of these attacks, especially since the 2015 state legislative sessions.
Then, so-called bathroom bills were a major focus and politicians lied about threats to women and girls’ safety that never materialized. Then the target was arguments about sports participation and misinformation about affirming healthcare access.
Privacy laws make it tough to identify the exact number of transgender athletes competing in public school sports, but researcher and medical physicist Joanna Harper estimates the number can't exceed 100 nationwide. "While we don't know the exact number of trans women competing in NCAA sports, I would be very surprised if there were more than 100 of them in the women's category," Harper told Newsweek.
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