Donald Trump has been out of office for over a year now. But to many Americans directly threatened by the authoritarian Republican Party’s anti-minority, anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ and, well, downright anti-democratic agenda, this last year hasn’t represented much of a reprieve.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, 2021 was the worst year in recent history for state legislation attacking LGBTQ equality. A total of 268 anti-equality bills were filed, 27 of which were signed into law, including 13 that specifically targeted the rights of transgender youth. Even though 2022 is still relatively young, it’s already shaping up to be similar to 2021 in terms of discriminatory state legislation.
2021 was the worst year in recent history for state legislation attacking LGBTQ equality
We’ve seen a spate of new 15-week abortion bans proposed in state legislatures, and an ongoing moral panic around the teaching of ‘critical race theory’ in public schools, which has helped fuel numerous book bans and even threatens to destroy the state university system in Texas.
