This reminds me of the wave of anti-gay marriage initiatives from the early 2000s. My guess is that this trend will probably be reversed eventually.
By Natasha Lennard The Intercept
South Dakota’s anti-trans sports ban is the first bill to pass among a record number targeting trans children this year.
This week, South Dakota became the first state to pass one of many bills proposed nationwide this year that viciously target trans youth. The South Dakota bill, S.B. 46, bans trans girls and women from participating on girls’ and women’s sports teams; it now heads to the desk of Republican Gov. Kristi Noem, who has long pushed for the exclusion and punishment of trans children to be further inscribed into state law.
“We are ensuring that what we’re seeing all over the country does not happen in South Dakota,” the governor’s chief of staff, Mark Miller, said of S.B. 46. “It’s sort of like terrorism: You want to keep it over there, not let it get to here.” The comparison of transness to terrorism drew rightful censure; it also perfectly encapsulated the fervor with which Republicans are committing to the decimation of trans life, as part of a top-down, highly organized, and profoundly cynical national campaign.
