OPINION Conservative WA Lawmakers Start 2024 With Reactionary Attacks on Gender-Affirming Care

When Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization struck down nearly 50 years of precedent for abortion rights, it opened the door to a strange new reality we’re still just beginning to understand. Without national protections for abortion, state legislatures are freshly empowered to restrict abortion access however they please, often through model legislation intended to be replicated elsewhere. That means it’s especially important to keep tabs on potential health care restrictions on their way to statehouses across the country. This session, at least one has already been introduced in Olympia, alongside efforts to throttle access to gender-affirming care and limit free speech for transgender and nonbinary kids.

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