Four hundred and eighty-three anti-trans bills have been introduced in legislatures across the country in an attempt to restrict medical access and public expression in what some advocates say is an attempt to erase trans existence from public life. We start this hour with a round up the legislative attacks on our transgender community members around the nation with Adam Rhodes, a queer, first-generation Cuban American journalist whose journalism focuses on public policy, the justice system, and our nation’s most vulnerable people. His latest piece for the Appeal is called Anti-Trans Bills Flood States in ‘Centrally Coordinated’ Attack on Transgender Existence. We’re also joined by Imani Gandy, who says the anti-trans legislative movement is taking its cues straight out of the anti-abortion movement, and to give us a round up of anti-abortion legislation in our post-Roe country. Imani Gandy is Senior Editor of Law and Policy for Rewire News Group. She also co-hosts the podcast Boom! Lawyered.

Read the article here: https://theappeal.org/new-jersey-transgender-prisoner-policy-demi-minor/

Check out Imani Gandy’s Boom! Lawyered podcast: https://rewirenewsgroup.com/tag/boom-lawyered/

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