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In states across the country, a flurry of new laws are being considered, and often passed, that specifically target transgender individuals \u2013 from bills that bar access to gender-affirming healthcare for youth to legislation that bans transgender people from competing in athletics. Professor Zein Murib shared where things stand, why transgender people have become the focus of so much legislative activity, and what these laws mean for the future of the LGBTQ+ movement and American society as a whole.\xa0

For more on this topic:

• Check out Murib\u2019s forthcoming book,\xa0Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity

• Read their OpEd for Teen Vogue, Expect More Right-Wing Anti-Trans, Anti-"Critical Race Theory" Pushes in 2023 \u2013 and 2024

• Find the book,\xa0Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, mentioned in the episode