Over the past few years, conservatives have taken every single measure under the book to try and restrict the human rights of our transgender community in order to fulfill a religious belief that the constitution strictly forbids. All of these bills really don’t have a logical reason on being passed other than the classic “protect our children” phrase that shows the blindness to many issues that today’s youth faces.
In the past two years, many states have passed laws that mainly restrict trans youth from going through with their self expression, including banning gender-affirming care, not allowing students to use bathrooms that align with their gender at birth, and so many more.
One of these states is Georgia, who most recently has been wanting to pass a “Don’t say Gay or Trans” bill. However, their goal is also to expand this bill to private schools. Their reasoning is not that they are concerned with the mental health of LGBTQ+ students, but rather their fear of private schools not having to follow this bill because they are less regulated.
Private schools were created under the sole purpose of a form of education that is less reliant on the government and more reliant on their communities, making them tuition-based, and they are often religious or alternatives to public free education with higher quality. So the government wanting to have a say in what words can be said in a private education setting is rather confusing.
The conservative wing of the government has again and again proven that the priorities of the general American population don’t matter, as they have developed a weird obsession with youth gender expression instead of keeping guns out of schools. According to them, restricting individuals from saying certain words in a school setting will “keep kids safe” when in reality bigger issues are at hand.
The fact that banning guns would be unconstitutional in their eyes, but banning human rights of certain individuals under religious beliefs or due to conspiracy theories, is almost unfathomable, but that’s where we are. Hopefully this bill will not pass or be expanded in Georgia.
