Abortion, parental rights, trans issues: What would a Kamala Harris victory look like?
Trans issues
Harris’ campaign website details the candidate’s intention to “fight to pass the Equality Act to enshrine anti-discrimination protections for LBGTQI+ Americans in health care, housing, education, and more into law.” Like the Women’s Health Protection Act, the Equality Act passed the Democrat-controlled House in the 117th Congress but stalled in the Senate.
Ryan T. Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is one of several critics of the Equality Act who has warned of its implications for religious liberty. He expressed concern ahead of its impending passage in the House in 2021 that the legislation “sacrifices the equality, safety, and privacy of women, while privileging men who identify as women.”
“If this bill becomes law, they’d have a civil right to spend the night in a battered women’s shelter, disrobe in a women’s locker room, and compete on a women’s sports team — even children at K-12 public schools,” he lamented. Anderson also warned that “Medical doctors — secular and religious — whose expert conclusion is that sex-reassignment procedures are misguided would now run afoul of our civil rights laws.”
If passed, the Equality Act could nullify laws and regulations in 26 states banning some or all types of gender transition procedures on youth exhibiting gender dysphoria and measures in 26 states requiring athletes to compete on teams that correspond with their sex instead of their stated gender identity.
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming have both types of laws in place.
Alaska and Kansas only have prohibitions on trans-identified male athletes competing in women’s sports, while Georgia and Nebraska only have laws banning the performance of some or all types of gender transition surgeries on minors.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
