Get Ready For More Legislation Targeting Trans Youth
Politics

State legislatures are now in session, and Republicans around the country are unsurprisingly back on their bullshit—introducing bills meant to make the lives of trans students as mean and circumscribed as possible.
On Monday, Montana’s House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on two bills targeting trans youth, both of which were sponsored by Republican Representative John Fuller and which clearly draw on the spate of similar bills introduced in 2020. HB 112, dubbed the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” would bar trans girls from k-12 and in college from participating in girls’ sports. (In a clear sign of how much inspiration Fuller drew from efforts in other states, Idaho state Representative Barbara Ehardt, who sponsored Idaho’s version of the bill, testified on Monday in support of HB 112.) HB 113 would, among other provisions, bar medical professionals from prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to trans youth, with fines of up to $50,000 for those who violate the law.