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Leon, 9, is transgenr, and his fay moved om Texas to protect his rights. 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xmlns=" style="fill:#166dfc" aria-hidn="te" focable="false" role="img"><tle>ArrowRight</tle><path d="M7.664 1.25l6 6a1 1 0 010 1.414l-6 6L6.25 13.25 10.499 9H2V7h8.585L6.25 2.664 7.664 1.25z" fill-le="nonzero"></path></svg></a><div data-orientatn="horizontal" role="separator" class="wpds-c-dbVHzF wpds-c-dbVHzF-hDkAcj-variant-flt"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Today, at least 166 measur to rtrict LGBTQ rights are still pendg state legislatur across the natn — nearly quadple the number of siar bills troduced jt three years ago, acrdg to data om <a href=" target=_blank>Freedom for All Amerins</a>, an LGBTQ advocy group.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Dreadg the knock at the door: Parents of trans kids Texas are terrified for their fai</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Members of the LGBTQ muny say the unprecented legislative efforts are aimed at dismantlg the hard-earned and tenuo civil rights of a vulnerable populatn and are<b> </b>g psychologil damage to children who are already stgglg.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>“</i>This wave of bills has been staggerg,” Florida state Rep. Anna Eskamani (D) said an terview. “The paful state-level fights are proof posive that discrimatn is still a very real threat that directly harms members of our most vulnerable muni, cludg and pecially young people who are transgenr.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Lawmakers who are sponsorg the bills say parental thory is beg unrmed, sometim nflict wh relig tes tght at home, and they believe tors and health-re workers are attemptg to nvert children to beg transgenr or queer.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>“</i>Christian parents don’t thk the schools should be evangelizg children to sexual iologi they don’t agree wh,” said Oklahoma state Sen. Rob Standridge (R), who troduced a bill this year that would enable parents to remove LGBTQ books om school librari. “So that’s what the bill is about, to try to get schools to stop dog that … I’m empowerg the parent that is directly affected by what they see as overridg their beliefs.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Detailed trackg of this legislative movement n be difficult. This is due part to lawmakers’<b> </b>practice of not mentng the words “transgenr” or “LGBTQ” bill text, eher tentnally to pe tectn or bee they do not acknowledge the legimacy of transgenr or queer inty, advocy groups and experts say. However, several LGBTQ anizatns have teams of lawyers who track the bills, cludg Freedom for All Amerins, the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn and the Human Rights Campaign.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">About 75 of the new bills ll for bans or severe rtrictns on classroom discsns, curriculum and library books that mentn LGBTQ issu, mostly but not exclively primary gras, acrdg to Freedom for All Amerins, which has one of the most nservative legislative timat among advocy groups.<b> </b>Some of the bills are vaguely word, makg unclear whether tors or stunts uld even mentn their own sexual or genr inty — or that of their parents — on school grounds. This issue has <a href=" target=_blank>led crics to dub Florida’s bill</a>, which passed the state legislature on March 8, the “don’t say gay”<b> </b>act.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Nearly 50 other bills seek to ban transgenr youth om playg petive school sports on teams that don’t align wh the genr they were assigned at birth.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">At least 29<b> </b>seek to ban genr-affirmg medil re for transgenr youth, which primarily volv hormone therapy to lay the onset of puberty or to beg the procs of transng. Some of the measur also seek to make a crime to provi such re to children and young teens, or to make a crime for parents to sign off on such re. (The Amerin Medil Associatn, the <a href=" target="_blank">Amerin Amy of Pediatrics</a> and other medil groups endorse the treatments, sayg such re sav liv.)</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There are also dozens of other bills foced on rtrictg LGBTQ rights, cludg at least 15 “bathroom bills,” which 2016 kicked off this legislative movement by phg to ban transgenr stunts, and sometim faculty members, om g school bathrooms nsistent wh their genr inty.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Nearly two-thirds of the bills foc on transgenr rights. There were 18 such bills troduced 2019, pared wh more than 100 last year. The number troduced so far this year has aga surpassed 100.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">FAQ: What you need to know about transgenr children</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The bills have found pecially fertile ground as the GOP seeks to energize s base for midterm electns a time when party lears have shown new willgns to openly attack gay<i> </i>and transgenr<i> </i>rights — a movement that ns unter to wir public sentiment on LGBTQ rights, acrdg to several recent surveys. A Public Relign Rearch Instute <a href=" target=_blank>survey released last week</a> showed nearly 8 10 Amerins support laws to protect LGBTQ people om discrimatn jobs, hog and public acmodatns. The survey also found that 68 percent of Amerins support same-sex marriage, a rise om 54 percent 2014.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Michael Boui, a law profsor at the Universy at Buffalo who specializ fay law and genr and sexualy law, argu that the new bills are aimed to please partisan terts rather than to spark real bate about how to bt<b> </b>help LGBTQ children.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“The laws are beg drafted such an extreme way, and wh such potentially opportunistic motiv, that is very easy for the left to reject them. The right don’t really want a bate on the issu,” Boui said an terview. “A lot of the bills volve parents’ rights to ntrol their children’s health re and tn, which has been galvanizg for a large segment of the Amerin populatn, particularly among nservativ leadg up to and gog through the panmic.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">For many parents of LGBTQ children, the wave of new bills have already had a signifint impact on their liv. After watchg a<b> </b>wave of anti-trans legislatn crtg the Texas Capol last fall, Cale Rey cid to move wh her hband and three children, cludg 9-year-old Leon, a transgenr boy, om At to Potomac, Md.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“None of should have to feel persecuted by our own ernment. None of should have to feel like polil refuge our own untry,” Rey said an terview. “That’s lerally what I feel like. I moved my whole fay bee of polics.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="D3OGGUT3WNH67EUMSWEW3GW63M"><div>Startg a landsli</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In early 2020, as Republin Idaho state Rep. Barbara Ehardt worked to craft a ban on transgenr athlet petg on public school sports teams, she turned to the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a Christian<b> </b>nservative legal anizatn.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The Arizona-based advocy group, found 1993, leverag the power of a natnal work of Christian lawyers for s legislative efforts and legal battl. It reported $78 ln assets 2020 and has received fundg om Christian, fay and fancial foundatns. In recent years, battled urt agast abortn rights and favor of relig practic schools and drafted language for anti-transgenr “bathroom bills” later ed multiple stat.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p><span class="wpds-c-gnhuPA wpds-c-gnhuPA-hqeSyH-variant-terstial wpds-c-gnhuPA-iPJLV-css hi-for-prt"><a data-qa="terstial-lk" href=">Insi the Christian legal powerhoe that keeps wng at the Supreme Court</a></span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Now, the group helped Ehardt craft the natn’s first succsful ban on transgenr female athlet.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><b>“</b>The<b> </b>Alliance Defendg Freedom said, ‘We thk we n strengthen this, maybe do somethg different,’ and then they shared wh me some other language,” Ehardt said an terview. “I thought was fely stronger and fely better.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">That bill,<b> </b>which beme law two years ago, helped set off a landsli of pyt legislatn, wh Ehardt travelg the untry to<b> </b>ttify support of the bills — and wh<b> </b>the Alliance Defendg Freedom helpg other legislators craft new bills to lim LGBTQ rights, acrdg to lawmakers and advot. Measur siar to Ehardt’s bill have sce bee law at least 10 other<b> </b>stat, acrdg to the Human Rights Campaign.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The group has played a siar role the proliferatn of dozens of other anti-LGBTQ bills filed around the natn this year — helpg lawmakers craft legislatn and providg legal support.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Last year, formed a aln wh two other nservative nonprofs, the Herage Foundatn and the Fay Policy Alliance,<b> </b>that published a list of posns on transgenr and gay rights that have repeatedly surfaced<b> </b> the rtrictive new state bills. It was released a month after Print Bin signed an <a href=" target="_blank">executive orr </a> January 2021 support of LGBTQ rights.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The webse for the aln, Promise to Ameri’s Children, also v lawmakers to provi their email addrs so the group n send sample bill language, which has sce appeared dozens of measur.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In the past,<b> </b>the Alliance Defendg Freedom has taken some of the most aggrsive stanc the fight agast LGBTQ rights. It filed a Supreme Court <a href=" target=_blank>amic brief</a> the landmark <i>Lawrence v. Texas</i> se — and joed <a href=" target=_blank>another brief </a>— which both unsuccsfully argued 2003 favor of the state’s right to mata sodomy laws, urt rerds show. High-rankg lears of the anizatn have also <a href=" target=_blank>publicly supported</a> efforts other untri to crimalize same-sex sexual acts. It also has fend parents’ right to have their LGBTQ children unrgo nversn therapy, which psychologil, physil, or spirual terventns an effort to make a person heterosexual or cisgenr.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb dn db-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-sktop"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-none pt-lg pb-lg" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"><div>Advertisement</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div class="cb db dn-ns" data-qa="article-body-ad" data-ttid="article-body-ad-mobile"><div aria-hidn="te" class="hi-for-prt relative flex jtify-center ntent-box ems-center b bh mb-md mt-sm pt-sm pb-sm" style="m-height:250px;borr-top-lor:;borr-bottom-lor:"><div class="center absolute w-100 borr-box" style="top:"><div class="dib gray-dark pl-xs pr-xs font-sans-serif light font-xxxxs lh-md" style="--primary-borr-lor:"></div></div><div data-ttid="placeholr-box" class="w-100 h-100 absolute flex flex-lumn jtify-center borr-box bg-offwhe" style="width:300px;height:250px"><div class="flex flex-lumn jtify-center font-sans-serif center font-xxs light gray-dark lh-md"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In a statement to The Washgton Post, the group scribed s efforts regardg crimalizg LGBTQ sex as a “limed engagement” on the issue and said is based on s “belief that marriage between on man and one woman is the bt stutn for human flourishg.” It also said believ that the issue of whether to crimalize LGBTQ sex should be left to stat.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">As for nversn therapy, Alliance Defendg Freedom said “supports everyone’s eedom to seek the unselg they choose whout terference om the ernment.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The aln of nservative nonprof groups, which say their work on recent anti-LGBTQ state bills is aimed at rtorg tradnal fay valu, cled terview requts om The Post. The Alliance Defendg Freedom said is routely volved helpg craft legislatn, notg that groups like the ACLU regularly do the same.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It is standard practice for lawmakers to work wh groups wh expertise as they craft and troduce legislatn. This is te across the iologil spectm,” the statement said. “ADF is regularly ved to draw upon our nstutnal expertise to provi put to forthg bills.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The Fay Policy Alliance said that the polil movement is driven by parents.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“In the wake of COVID, wh children engaged remote learng, parents gaed a new wdow to what their children were learng the classroom,” the group said a statement. “For some parents, this revealed curriculum which not only tght viewpots about sex and genr wh which they disagreed, but tght them as fact to young children.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">LGBTQ advot, though, say the groups — and smaller anizatns wh siar goals — have played a central role elevatg the legislatn.<b> </b>Some groups have boasted of their fundraisg and fluence on the measur. Officials om the Amerin Prcipl Project, a nservative thk tank, <a href=" target=_blank>scribed on Stephen K. Bannon’s</a> “War Room” show a $750,000 “grassroots advocy” mpaign anized to urge Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to orr the state to vtigate parents of trans children who have received genr-affirmg medil re.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Cathryn Oakley, the state legislative director and senr unsel for the Human Rights Campaign, the natn’s largt LGBTQ advocy group, noted that many of the same<b> </b>groups had prevly phed bills to stop same-sex marriage and enact natnwi transgenr bathroom and relig exemptn laws.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“We had a flurry of those bills, 2017, 2018, 2019, but they weren’t really g the kd of dramatic impact that opponents of equaly wanted them to have, terms of stillg fear about what LGBTQ+ equaly uld mean,” Oakley said an terview. “So, they swched to targetg trans kids.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Like Ehardt, other lawmakers behd more recent bills have publicly creded the groups wh helpg to achieve succs.<b> </b>South Dakota state Rep. Fred Dtsch (R) troduced 2020<b> </b>a bill to ban genr-affirmg medil procr for transgenr youth, after he attend an event hosted by the Herage Foundatn.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Dtsch said that, craftg the bill, he sought out transgenr youth and spoke to them as part of his rearch. The ial draft, he said an email msage, “was veloped anilly the livg room of my untry home South Dakota, surround by of rn fields.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">He then got put om the Alliance Defendg Freedom and asked the Herage Foundatn if he uld share the bill draft at an upg nference.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“Apparently people at the nference shared the draft wh legislators om other stat, sce the months followg the nference, legislators om other stat ntacted me,” he wrote an email.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Like Ehardt’s legislatn, Dtsch’s medil-re bill was the first of s kd 2020. Although did not pass, has been replited and troduced dozens of stat. So far, at least two stat have enacted<b> </b>such laws<b> </b>— Arkansas and Tennsee.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Morissa Ladsky, associate profsor of pediatrics at the Universy of Alabama at Birmgham, said those laws will force physicians like her who re for transgenr youth to chose between vlatg the Hippocratic oath or breakg state law.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“To cease a urse of succsful medil therapy … is grave vlatn of a huge te of medil ethics. It’s lled medil abandonment,” said Ladsky, who works a state wh a pendg transgenr medil re bill. “So, do I vlate a major, major ethil te of health-re livery, or do we risk a felony nvictn? It’s a place no physician ever saw themselv beg .”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">There’s no one reason<b> </b>the bills have found particular tractn this year, advot and experts said. Oakley<b> </b>said that panmic burnout has led many Amerins to tune out legislative ssns.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“I do thk that to some gree, the attacks have flown unr the radar bee of the panmic and bee of the surrectn,” she said. “I don’t thk that this has permeated their nscns the same way that prev attacks have permeated their nscns.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Hannah Willard, vice print of ernment affairs for Freedom for All Amerins, said the bills are also a reactn to recent civil rights gas ma by the LGBTQ muny.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“You don’t get progrs whout backlash,” Willard said an terview. “So ’s not a cince that we’re seeg the anti-trans bills the stat at the same time as we’re seeg growg support. They n feel like ntradictory trends, but really they are two sis of the exact same .”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><h3 data-qa="article-hear" class=" pb-sm pt-lgmod" id="PRWZ3AJGGBBWXPMVTC7EUYKJJ4"><div>A wave of legislatn</div></h3></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><div data-qa="article-image" class="hi-for-prt"><div style="m-height:358px"></div></div></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">From ast to ast, bills<b> </b>that would drastilly impact gay and trans children have advanced this year wh startlg speed<i>.</i></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In Alabama, the Senate passed a bill Febary that lls for penalti of up to 10 years prison and a $15,000 fe for anyone who provis genr-affirmg re to a child or teenager. This clus<b> </b>hormone treatments that lay puberty, which are reversible.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In Idaho, a bill passed the Hoe<b> </b>this month that<b> </b>would allow librarians to be jailed for up to a year and fed $1,000 each time they are found guilty of dissematg material that is “harmful to mors.” A meang for this standard is not fed the bill. Exampl provid durg legislative heargs clud<b> </b>books that had LGBTQ them or characters.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">And Florida, the “don’t say gay” bill would ban public schools om teachg about sexual orientatn or genr inty krgarten through the third gra, and says tors at all gra levels should rea om discsg LGBTQ issu that are not “age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts,” which is left open to terpretatn. Parents who believe an tor has vlated the law may sue.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">When Texas lawmakers did not pass a transgenr medil re ban, Abbott Febary<b> </b>asked the public to turn parents to state officials if they have provid genr-affirmg medil re to their trans children so they n face crimal vtigatns and potential charg. Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) have lled such re “child abe.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Paxton said a Febary opn that parents and guardians should be blocked om signg off on all transgenr procr — cludg hormone therapi — “[b]ee children are legally petent to nsent,” and said that hormone therapi n sometim affect fertily and therefore “ge on the child’s fundamental right to procreate.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The ACLU has sued an attempt to stop the vtigatns,<b> </b>and advot have cried the state’s move as<b> </b>perhaps the most aggrsive attack<b> </b>on trans youth<b> </b> this multiyear mpaign.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“They have gone after trans kids every nceivable dimensn,” Oakley said. “They’re tryg to take their parents’ support away, they’re tryg to take doctors’ support away, they’re tryg to take teachers’ support away, and they’re tryg to take their teams and ach away.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">So far this year, six of the bills have been approved by five state legislatur — four of which specifilly curtail the rights of trans children and their fai, acrdg to Freedom for All Amerins.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The advocy group said at least a dozen pendg bills would also require medil re provirs and tors who learn of a child’s LGBTQ stat to notify parents. Many of the provisns to “out” transgenr and other LGBTQ youth are not expected to survive.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The rise the extreme penalti the measur ll for — and the polarizg bat surroundg them — have started to garner the attentn of major rporatns and the general public. It’s not yet clear whether this uld change the urse of future state legislatn, experts said.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">This month, more than 170 major U.S. rporatns, cludg PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson and Macy’s, have signed a statement nmng the bills. Other large pani have felt a backlash recent months, most notably Disney. CEO Bob Chapek formally apologized to employe this month for the pany’s silence on the Florida bill rtrictg LGBTQ topics elementary schools, announcg would pse all polil donatns the state after fancial ntributns showed the pany gave to lawmakers who champned the legislatn.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Court challeng to block the laws — cludg one Arkansas that bans genr-affirmg medil re for trans youth — have been succsful four stanc but are beg appealed by state officials, acrdg to the ACLU. Several other lawsus are still pendg, the group said. Some Republin officials have also phed back on the measur, wh <a href=" target=_blank>ernors both Indiana and Utah</a> recently vetog transgenr sports bans.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">The Bin admistratn is also now steppg , vowg to take steps to block state actns that might discrimate agast LGBTQ youth and their fai — somethg the Tmp admistratn did not do. Earlier this month, Health and Human Servic Secretary Xavier Becerra nmned Abbott’s directive to vtigate parents of transgenr children and said his agency “will e every tool at our disposal to keep Texans safe.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Whether the bills have succeed, failed or are pendg, parents and children ught up the polil drama say has taken a psychologil toll.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">In Florida, Todd and Jeff Delmay — a gay married uple — say they worry for their 12-year-old son, Blake, bee ’s unclear if the proposed “don’t say gay” law would prevent their son om beg able to openly talk about his home life at school.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null"><i>“</i>I n’t image not beg able to see your parents accepted like other parents bee mak you feel <i>other</i>,” said Todd Delmay, who ttified agast the Florida bill.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“It don’t matter how different your fay is. It’s still lled fay,” said Blake, who exprsed siar ncerns and said he is also worried about beg bullied. “You need to be able to talk about your fay.”</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">Rey said her fay’s cisn to move om Texas was driven by the knowledge that even if a bill fails this year, a siar or new bill targetg transgenr rights probably will be brought back next year. She said stayg to ntue battlg the bills would have been too taxg on her fay.</p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body"><p data-ttid="drop-p-letter" data-el="text" class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overriStyl font-py" dir="null">“There were parents who were fightg bi me who had fought two years earlier when the bathroom bill had been troduced,” she said. “This was their life. I didn’t want this to be my life. I had a different life md. 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John Cornyn and Ted Cz, have nounced the foc on the pair as an iologilly motivated smear Texans joed fellow Republins on the mtee cricizg the legislatn as a bid by Democrats to ero the urt’s fluence the face of a nservative majory issug opns on abortn, gay rights, affirmative actn and a host of other hot-button addn to requirg the urt to adopt a of nduct, the bill lls for new disclosure requirements on gifts, travel and e. McConnell, he said, kept the urt at eight for a year when he blocked Obama’s nomatn of Merrick Garland, now the attorney general, to fill the seat left vant by the ath of Anton also needled Cz by potg out the Texan was more than willg to attack the urt for “judicial tyranny” when legalized gay marriage and had lled for endg life tenure and subjectg jtic to retentn Morton, Washgton rrponnt.

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One of the most active — the Alliance Defendg Freedom — has a s-long history of fightg LGBTQ rights, cludg battl to prerve state laws crimalizg nsensual sex between gay adults, urt rerds, at least 166 measur to rtrict LGBTQ rights are still pendg state legislatur across the natn — nearly quadple the number of siar bills troduced jt three years ago, acrdg to data om Freedom for All Amerins, an LGBTQ advocy group. This issue has led crics to dub Florida’s bill, which passed the state legislature on March 8, the “don’t say gay” 50 other bills seek to ban transgenr youth om playg petive school sports on teams that don’t align wh the genr they were assigned at least 29 seek to ban genr-affirmg medil re for transgenr youth, which primarily volv hormone therapy to lay the onset of puberty or to beg the procs of transng.

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The number troduced so far this year has aga surpassed bills have found pecially fertile ground as the GOP seeks to energize s base for midterm electns a time when party lears have shown new willgns to openly attack gay and transgenr rights — a movement that ns unter to wir public sentiment on LGBTQ rights, acrdg to several recent surveys.

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Measur siar to Ehardt’s bill have sce bee law at least 10 other stat, acrdg to the Human Rights group has played a siar role the proliferatn of dozens of other anti-LGBTQ bills filed around the natn this year — helpg lawmakers craft legislatn and providg legal year, formed a aln wh two other nservative nonprofs, the Herage Foundatn and the Fay Policy Alliance, that published a list of posns on transgenr and gay rights that have repeatedly surfaced the rtrictive new state bills.

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yet they are not required to follow even the most basic ethil standards,” said Sen. Dick Durb, D-Ill., the mtee chairman.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 hidn md_flex"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__hQ4DU flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-sktopInle1" data-un="dmn/news/polics/article/sktopInle1" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Republins noted the bill do not have the bipartisan support required to bee law and acced Democrats of tryg to further unrme public nfince a urt that’s issug nservative opns they don’t like.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 md_hidn"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__h-NaF dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__u4HRm dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 md_hidn htlad-dfpPosn1_article" data-un="dmn/news/polics/article/dfpPosn1_article" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">The Judicial Conference of the Uned Stat, the feral urts’ policymakg body, has veloped regulatns that ern lower urts. 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Bh.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__D24FM w-full mb-6 htlad-nativeArticleInle" data-un="dmn/news/polics/article/nativeArticleInle" data-targetg="{"native":"nativeArticleInle","scroll":"1"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">He also highlighted stori about Jtice Sonia Sotomayor, appoted by Democrat Barack Obama, <a href=">g taxpayer-fund urt staff to promote sal of her books</a> and failg to rece herself s volvg her publisher.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Crow <a href=">sists there’s nothg untoward about his relatnship wh Thomas</a> but has <a href=">rebuffed requts by Democrats for more rmatn </a>about his gifts to the jtice.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Many Republin lawmakers, cludg Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cz,<a href="> have nounced the foc on the pair as an iologilly motivated smear job</a>.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 md_hidn"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__YIHSg dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__u4HRm dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 md_hidn htlad-dfpPosn2_article" data-un="dmn/news/polics/article/dfpPosn2_article" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">The Texans joed fellow Republins on the mtee cricizg the legislatn as a bid by Democrats to ero the urt’s fluence the face of a nservative majory issug opns on abortn, gay rights, affirmative actn and a host of other hot-button issu.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6 hidn md_flex"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__-zD5N flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-sktopInle2" data-un="dmn/news/polics/article/sktopInle2" data-targetg="{}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">In addn to requirg the urt to adopt a of nduct, the bill lls for new disclosure requirements on gifts, travel and e. It also would tablish procr for plats of misnduct and requts for a jtice to avoid handlg a se bee of a nflict of tert.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Democrats say such procr are necsary bee ep-pocketed nservativ have tried to fluence the directn of the urt.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">But Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., known for his folksy turns of phrase, said the legislatn is meant to be a “urt killg mache” bee would pave the way for disqualifyg jtic high-profile s.</p><div class=""><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__aJKMz hidn">Advertisement</div><div class="" id="teads-article-ad"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">“It would allow any jackaloon out there Ameri a til hat, whose own dog thks he’s an utter nutter, to file a motn to rece a Uned Stat Supreme Court jtice,” Kennedy said.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">He also observed — accurately — that the bill is “ad as ied chicken” on the Senate floor and the Republin-ntrolled Hoe.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Cornyn, a former Texas Supreme Court jtice, said Democrats wouldn’t be promotg the proposal if the urt were issug opns wh which they agreed.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“This long mpaign of timidatn and harassment is signed not to treat as a -equal branch of ernment, not to build and mata public nfince some of our most important stutns, but rather to make subservient to the will of Congrs,” Cornyn said.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/news/polics/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"1"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Cz also said the bill has nothg to do wh ethics.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">“It’s about a double standard applied to jtic wh whom Democrats disagree,” Cz said. “It is signed to legimize the urt.”</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">The mtee adopted one GOP amendment nmng racist rhetoril attacks on Thomas after tweakg the language to clarify they were nmng such rhetoric agast any jtice.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">The mtee feated other amendments offered by Republins, cludg on foced on secury for the jtic the wake of protts outsi their hom sparked by the cisn overturng Roe vs. Wa and s nstutnal guarantee of abortn rights.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/news/polics/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"2"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Cornyn offered an amendment tend to guarantee feral judg the right to rry ncealed firearms. Cz offered one to reaffirm the number of Supreme Court jtic should rema at ne.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Cz said Democrats have shown an tert “packg” the urt by creasg the number of jtic and appotg liberals to the new spots.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">Durb untered by sayg the only livg senator who has changed the urt’s size is Senate Mory Lear Mch McConnell, R-Ky.</p><p class="body-text-paragraph">McConnell, he said, kept the urt at eight for a year when he blocked Obama’s nomatn of Merrick Garland, now the attorney general, to fill the seat left vant by the ath of Anton Slia.</p><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__cOFTB flex flex-l ems-center dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__xNWY5 borr-t borr-b borr-gray-light mb-6"><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-arc-ad-_children-ad-wrapper-module__3Ge73 upperse py-4 sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-9 text-gray-dark">Advertisement</div><div class="dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__Z-JdA dmnc_featur-ads-nfig-prets-module__N2M5T flex ems-center jtify-center mb-6 htlad-dfpPosn" data-un="dmn/news/polics/article/dfpPosn" data-targetg="{"scroll":"3"}"></div></div><p class="body-text-paragraph">Durb also needled Cz by potg out the Texan was more than willg to <a href=">attack the urt for “judicial tyranny” when </a>legalized gay marriage and had <a href=">lled for endg life tenure and subjectg jtic to retentn vot</a>.</p></sectn></div><div class="dmnc_generic-share-bar-share-bar-module__C7Mzo flex flex-l md_flex-row md_ems-center"><div class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__QPbOU flex flex-wrap mb-8"><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href=" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" tle="Share on Facebook"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__2p85- text-facebook"><path d="M18 2h-3a5 5 0 00-5 5v3H7v4h3v8h4v-8h3l1-4h-4V7a1 1 0 011-1h3z"></path></svg></a><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href=" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" tle="Share on Twter"><svg xmlns=" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-lep="round" stroke-lejo="round" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__vWRQM text-twter"><path d="M23 3a10.9 10.9 0 01-3.14 1.53 4.48 4.48 0 00-7.86 3v1A10.66 10.66 0 013 4s-4 9 5 13a11.64 11.64 0 01-7 2c9 5 20 0 20-11.5a4.5 4.5 0 00-.08-.83A7.72 7.72 0 0023 3z"></path></svg></a><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href="mailto:?; tle="Share via Email"><svg width="16" height="11" viewBox="0 0 16 11" xmlns=" fill="currentColor" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le "><path d="M8.202 6.698L15.085.62c-.046-.007-.088-.028-.136-.028H1.452c-.03 0-.055.015-.083.018l6.833 6.087zM15.913 1.557a.95.95 0 00-.065-.323l-4.86 4.291 4.798 4.198a.954.954 0 00.127-.453V1.557zM.564 1.185a.957.957 0 00-.076.372V9.27c0 .14.034.272.088.392L5.42 5.51.564 1.185z"></path><path d="M10.26 6.167L8.2 7.986l-2.054-1.83-4.744 4.066c.017.002.032.012.05.012h13.454l-4.647-4.067z"></path></svg></a><a class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__rH-K0 relative borr borr-gray-medium flex whpace-nowrap ems-center p-3 mr-3 my-1 hover_bg-gray-light transn-all" href="()" tle="Prt"><svg fill="currentColor" class="dmnc_social-ins-social-ins-module__-UxPq in-le " width="15" height="15" viewBox="0 0 15 15" xmlns="><path d="M13.125 2.813V0H1.875v2.813H0v5.624h1.875v2.813L5.625 15h7.5V8.437H15V2.814h-1.875zM11.25 13.124H6.562v-2.813H3.75v-3.75h7.5v6.563zm0-10.313h-7.5v-.937h7.5v.938z"></path></svg></a></div></div><div class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__0hBFH mb-8"><div class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__Jh9-n flex lg_ems-center pt-4 pb-4 borr-t borr-gray-light"><a href="/thor/joseph-morton" class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__TT9iw flex-shrk-0 mr-5"><img width="140" height="140" alt="Joseph Morton" src="()/" class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__3OzIr block dmnc_imag-circle-image-module__dSj87 round-circular bg-ver bg-center dmnc_imag-img-module__-o1u- max-w-full text-whe object-nta"/></a><div><p class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__sZHYI sendaryRoman sendaryRoman-20 mb-2"><a class="dmnc_featur-article-thor-thor-module__Bj7w9 lk-blue unrle" href="/thor/joseph-morton/">Joseph Morton</a>, Washgton rrponnt<!-- -->. 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