Sarah Posner: What you need to know about the driving force behind a surge of bills targeting trans youth.
The driving force of these bills is a religious fervor that seeks to impose narrow right-wing Christian beliefs on everyone else.
The judge concluded the law was not passed out of a “bare desire” to harm transgender girls — even while he recognized that one of the bill’s co-sponsors, delegate Jordan Bridges, had reacted positively to transphobic responses to his Facebook post announcing his support of the bill. Bridges,, had “‘liked’ comments on his post that promoted physical violence against transgender girls, compared them to pigs, and called them by the pejorative term “tranny.
Although the judge considered Bridges’ Facebook activity an isolated incident, the record of the Christian right’s muscle flex in red states has been one of elevating “biblical” values and “God’s design” for the sexes above equal rights, frequently disparaging and demeaning transgender people along the way. When the Save Girls’ Sports Act passed in 2021, the Family Policy Council of West Virginia
that it had “worked very hard behind the scenes with the House sponsors and with the State Senate sponsors.”
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