Transphobia in the United States
[13] However, individual court cases, such as Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, prohibit discrimination of employees "based on their perceived failure to conform to socially constructed characteristics of males or females.
Further, evidence has been found that the risk of assault for transgender children is reduced when they are allowed access to restrooms and locker rooms which match their gender identity.
[39] Despite the fact that follow ups on Littman's study did not show support for her ideas, the paper she published has been used to justify anti-transgender legislation and policies in Florida and other US states.
Hispanic LGBTQ+ organization, QLatinx, describes how "racism, sexism, heterosexism, xenophobia, and transphobia share a common root source of oppression that ultimately works to sustain white supremacy and heteropatriarchy.
[64] The clinic was described by media and press releases as being a project designed to help "unfortunate individuals, trapped in the wrong body" and would "rehabilitate" "deviant" transsexual people.
[87] On February 20, 2017, the Trump administration "withdrew guidance...stating federal law requires transgender students to have access to bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identity.
[89] In 2020, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit to challenge Connecticut's rule allowing transgender students to participate in youth sports according to their gender identity.
[117] In July 2022, attorneys general from twenty states, including Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia filed suit against the United States Department of Agriculture over their prohibition of discrimination against LGBTQ people receiving school meals.
[18] In Florida, state education officials told schools to "disregard recent guidance from the Biden administration" that would help protect transgender students under Title IX.
"[26] In mid-July, the GOP in the US House of Representatives supported bills that would target transgender athletes with the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act" sponsored by Greg Steube.
[119] Marjorie Taylor Greene, a US Representative, introduced a bill called Protect Children's Innocence Act in August 2022 that would make providing gender-affirming care to minors a class C felony.
[125] In preparation of the Texas legislative session in January 2023, Republican lawmakers pre-filed bills that will target transgender people and make gender-affirming care illegal for youth.
[129] In April 2023, Montana removed transgender lawmaker, Zooey Zephyr, from the floor and then proceeded to pass a bill banning gender affirming care for minors.
[151] A Texas judge, Reed O'Connor, blocked the Title IX protections by June 12 with an injunction, claiming that the Biden Administration "had overstepped its authority" in "requiring schools to respect trans and nonbinary students' pronouns and allow them access to the restrooms of their choice.
"[186] The company's trans employee resource group sent demands to Netflix management and planned to organize a walkout in response to the continued support of Chappelle.
[194] In August 2022, right-wing Twitter account Libs of TikTok falsely claimed that Boston Children's Hospital was performing hysterectomies and other gender affirming surgeries on "young girls.
[44] In September 2022, Matt Walsh made accusations against Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Tennessee, saying that doctors "drug," "castrate," and "mutilate" children.
[207] In the lead up to Pride in April 2023 a commercial for Bud Light featuring the actress Dylan Mulvaney caused a boycott by transphobic conservatives against the company.
"[213] A team of anti-transgender activists have joined her, including Chloe Cole, Adam Coleman, Riley Gaines, Tabia Lee, and Paula Scanlan.
[213] Also in March 2024, conservative blogger, Michael Shellenberger and anti-transgender group, Genspect, leaked reports about transgender care that were taken out of context and some of which contained false claims.
"[215] In May 2024, Gaines used social media to show her support of a crowd booing the win of a transgender athlete in the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) women's 200 meter run.
[216] A Florida employee, and parent of a transgender athlete, at Monarch High School is still waiting as of June 2024 to find out if she will be suspended for a potential violation of the Fairness in Women's Sports Act.
"[218] In early 2024, Best Buy was contacted by the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), a conservative think tank, over donations the company had made to LGBTQ groups, such as The Trevor Project and GLAAD.
[223] Early in 2025, Meta severely loosened restrictions on its "Hateful Conduct" policy which now allows users to accuse LGBTQ, and especially transgender people, as having a mental illness or being "abnormal.
"[224] A school in Middleborough, Massachusetts faced controversy when parents complained that a book featuring a transgender character was read out loud to a fifth grade class.
[240] On March 24, 2022, former Mississippi legislator, Robert Foster, used Twitter to express his opinion that allies of transgender people should be "lined up against [a] wall before a firing squad to be sent to an early judgment.
[242] At the San Francisco Bay Area event, "The [Proud Boys] were described as extremely aggressive with a threatening violent demeanor causing people to fear for their safety.
[255][256] The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Children's Hospital Association (CHA) have asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to "investigate the organizations, individuals, and entities coordinating, provoking, and carrying out bomb threats and threats of personal violence against children's hospitals and physicians across the U.S."[257] When Tucker Carlson on Fox News covered the accusations against Vanderbilt University Medical Center, he showcased photos of the doctors' faces along with their names.
[52] During the COVID-19 pandemic, transgender people were left out demographically because public health organizations rarely collect data on sexual or gender minorities (SGM).
[316] Using rhetoric designed to both dehumanize and cause fear for a small population allows right wing politicians to use transgender people as a scapegoat for larger societal problems.
