As these are quite recent events as of this writing, much of the content is fairly political
2020s
2020 LegalThe Trump administration’s HHS removed anti-discrimination protections of transgender people for health care settings and insurers denying transition related medical care. Trump’s HUD removes anti-discrimination protections of transgender people for homeless shelters and other housing services receiving federal funds.
2020 March Legal Idaho passed the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act” which defines assigned gender at birth as biological sex and prohibits biological males from participating in girls' or women's single sex sports. It was put under injunction and its implementation is waiting upon decisions from various courts as of this writing 3/8/23. It was the first of several trans sports bans passed by statehouses.
2020 March Legal Idaho passed a law banning transgender people from changing their names and gender markers on their birth certificates, despite a ruling two years previously that such bans were illegal.
2020 Nine states introduced variations of the Vulnerable Child Protection Act from the Deutsch group. None passed this year.
2020 June Legal SCOTUS determined that Title VII protects people from job discrimination on the basis of their transgender status as falling within its protections on the basis of sex in a case brought by Aimee Stevens, who died shortly before the decision was released.
2020-2022 Legal Justice Hundreds of anti-trans copycat bills are introduced to statehouses across the United States seeking to push back on transgender rights. Many of them target access to healthcare, particularly for transgender youth - some to the point of declaring support of such care to be acts of child abuse. Many others target access to single gender sports participation also, targeting transgender youth. Anti-LGBTQ+ organizations such as Alliance Defending Freedom are responsible for providing blueprint bills for many of these efforts. Early passages of such legislation in Idaho in 2020 were stayed by the courts pending appeal, while others as in Arkansas went into effect after passage. These bills rely on false information about athletic performance of transgender girls and false medical information about transgender youth. This article by James Factora for Them gives an overview with factual sources. The Media Often Gets Trans Stories Wrong. This Guide Hopes to Change That.
2021Legal Trans Sports Bans were passed in nine states: Alabama, Arkansas had two, Florida, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota by Executive order, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia; bringing the total such bans to ten. They have been titled The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act: in Idaho, Arkansas, Florida ; The Save Women’s Sports Act in Montana; The Gender Integrity Reinforcement Legislation for Girls' Sports (GIRLS) Act in Arkansas
2021 Valentino Vecchietti created the Intersex-Inclusive Pride flag, based off of the Progress Pride flag design.
2021 April Legal Arkansas passed the first Gender affirming health care ban for those under the age of 18 entitled The Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act.
2021 April Legal A Birth Certificate change ban was passed in Montana, bringing the total of such bans to two.
2022 Legal Trans Sports Bans were passed in eight states: Arizona, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee had two, bringing the total number of states with such bans to eighteen. They have been titled The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act: in Idaho, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana ; The Save Women’s Sports Act in Arizona, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina; The Gender Integrity Reinforcement Legislation for Girls' Sports (GIRLS) Act in Arkansas.
2022 April Legal A blanket gender affirming health care ban for minors was passed in Alabama (the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (V-CAP)), it was a variation of a bills that had failed in 2020 and 2021, themselves based off of the Sen. Deutsch group’s Vulnerable Child Protection Act, developed in August 2019. This brought the total number of those bans signed into law to two. A surgical only health care ban for minors was passed in Arizona.
2022 Legal Often in conjunction with bans on instruction of so-called “Critical Race Theory” multiple states passed “Don’t Say Gay/Trans” laws forbidding discussion of anything related to gender identity or sexual orientation in various grade levels of schools. States included: Arizona, Florida had two.
2022 June Justice Chris Rufo, who pushed the negative associations with the phrase “Critical Race Theory” started pushing to associate trans people with drag and drag with strippers. "Conservatives should start using the phrase 'trans stripper' in lieu of 'drag queen.' It has a more lurid set of connotations and shifts the debate to sexualization. 'Drag queens in schools' invites a debate; 'trans strippers in schools' anchors an unstoppable argument. Let the Left try to nitpick the phrase: we can say that ‘trans’ is a stand-in for ‘transvestite’ and we can show videos that are undeniably strip shows…. The trick is to shift the language in a way that is factually accurate and has a plausible claim to neutrality, but attaches a new set of connotations to the concept that shifts the debate in your favor." - Chris Rufo
2022 September Medical WPATH published the eighth version of the Standards of Care
2023 January Justice Terry Schilling, president of the right-wing American Principles Project, acknowledged that the long-term plan is in fact to eliminate gender-affirming care, and that focusing on young people first is an attempt at “going where the consensus is.”
“"Terry Schilling, president of the right-wing American Principles Project, acknowledged that the long-term plan is in fact to eliminate gender-affirming care, and that focusing on young people first is an attempt at 'going where the consensus is.'"