'Young people are being harmed': The effect of anti-trans legislation https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/060823_trans_legislation/young-people-are-being-harmed-effect-anti-trans-legislation/
Hundreds of anti-transgender bills proposed in state legislatures are sold as measures to protect minors, but advocacy groups and doctors warn that the effect is exactly the opposite.
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“86% of #transgender and #nonbinary youth said anti-trans bills negatively impacted their mental health...
‘It’s a constant debate on my existence and it just makes me exhausted and frustrated that I have to legitimately just live,’ one #trans individual responded…
Others said they feared for their life, safety and future…
‘#LGBTQ young people are watching, and internalizing the anti-LGBTQ messages they see in the media and from their elected officials’…”