cont'd
According to the ACLU, 20 states enacted 72 new anti-trans laws in the first six months of 2023; more than 200 are in the pipeline.
The geography of gender panic illuminates the right wing’s stranglehold on a large swath of the United States. As of 2023-06-01 24 states, including Texas, Florida, Georgia, & Arizona, account for almost all of the recent explosion of anti-trans legislation. More than 140 million people—42 percent of the US population—live in these states.