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frameacloudContent warnings: About opposition to transgender rights in US politics. Rated PG-13, safe for work.
Accessibility notes: If some words in this article are unfamiliar to you, you may find them in the glossary at the end of the article. The references section after that has unmasked web addresses, which make it printer friendly, but also make it annoying to listen to through a screen reader.
Disclaimer: For historical purposes, this article collects some recent events that have been in the news about bills and court cases. All of this is publicly available information. I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. For legal advice, you must consult with your lawyer.
Summary: In the US, groups have attempted to oppose the legal rights of transgender people by comparing them to furries, otherkin, or trans-species people. Of the many bills introduced in January opposing transgender rights, three bills also opposed furries or people who identify as animals: ND HB 1522, OK SB 943, and IN SH 380. The background leading up to this includes three Supreme Court cases from around 2019: G.G. v. Gloucester County School Bd., G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Doe v. Boyertown Area School Dist. In these, amici curiae tried to discredit transgender people by comparing them to otherkin or trans-species people. This is a continuation of at least a decade of sexists making this comparison, with or without the knowledge that any alterhuman groups exist, as a straw-man fallacy.
( This article is about nine pages long, so I'm putting it behind a cut tag. Click here to read the whole thing! )
Accessibility notes: If some words in this article are unfamiliar to you, you may find them in the glossary at the end of the article. The references section after that has unmasked web addresses, which make it printer friendly, but also make it annoying to listen to through a screen reader.
Disclaimer: For historical purposes, this article collects some recent events that have been in the news about bills and court cases. All of this is publicly available information. I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. For legal advice, you must consult with your lawyer.
Summary: In the US, groups have attempted to oppose the legal rights of transgender people by comparing them to furries, otherkin, or trans-species people. Of the many bills introduced in January opposing transgender rights, three bills also opposed furries or people who identify as animals: ND HB 1522, OK SB 943, and IN SH 380. The background leading up to this includes three Supreme Court cases from around 2019: G.G. v. Gloucester County School Bd., G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Doe v. Boyertown Area School Dist. In these, amici curiae tried to discredit transgender people by comparing them to otherkin or trans-species people. This is a continuation of at least a decade of sexists making this comparison, with or without the knowledge that any alterhuman groups exist, as a straw-man fallacy.
( This article is about nine pages long, so I'm putting it behind a cut tag. Click here to read the whole thing! )
