Just one week into 2023, state legislatures across the United States are already planning to consider more than two dozen bills aiming to cut off transgender people's access to healthcare, with adults as well as minors targeted.
The legislation that was introduced or pre-filed in the first week of the year includes Senate Bill 129 in Oklahoma, which is set to be formally introduced in the state Senate in early February. The pre-filed legislation would ban all gender-affirming surgery for people under the age of 26, indicating, according to researcher Erin Reed, that the previously "hypothetical escalation" of transition bans for adults is now in motion.
