Human Rights Campaign recorded the introduction of 550 bills last year, with more than half targeting LGBTQ+ youth<\/p>\n
Citing what it calls \u201cthe most damaging and destructive legislative session on record\u201d, the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on Tuesday published its annual state-by-state scorecard of policies, laws and services.<\/p>\n
The 2023 state equality index<\/a> documents a broadening push towards \u201cstate-sanctioned discrimination\u201d \u2013 the elimination or restriction of rights and protections for trans and non-binary communities in Republican-controlled states, which the HRC had already declared a national emergency<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Human Rights Campaign recorded the introduction of 550 bills last year, with more than half targeting LGBTQ+ youth Citing what it calls \u201cthe most damaging and destructive legislative session on record\u201d, the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign (HRC) on Tuesday published its annual state-by-state scorecard of policies, laws and services. The 2023 state equality … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}