Gender affirming care bans are sweeping red states. They target transgender youth in cruel ways and go against medical guidelines and standards of care. Georgia is the first "purple" state to do so.

Yesterday, Georgia passed SB140, a bill that bans gender affirming care for transgender youth. In doing so, it became the 10th such state to pass a ban and the very first state that voted for Biden in the general election cycle to do so. This move comes after a major state-wide senate election featured a Republican candidate, Herschel Walker, that leaned hard into anti-trans stances and lost. Despite the lack of political success seen at the state level in Georgia when targeting transgender people, Republicans there have pushed ahead with the ban and passed it through both legislative chambers. It awaits the governor’s signature before it is enacted into law.

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