NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS – State lawmakers at the North Carolina General Assembly are pondering another bill that would affect [so-called] transgender people.
Senate Republicans added language to House Bill 805 that would recognize only two sexes in state government rules and public policies.
The language echoes President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order that asserted this as the U.S. government’s position.
The new provisions — which don’t yet appear in any official online versions of House Bill 805 — would define the terms “male” and “female” in a way similar to those laid out in Trump’s order.
Another new measure would prohibit the use of state money to pay for [so-called] gender-affirming care for [convicts] and would require the preservation of the original birth certificate when a person goes to change the sex on that form.
In North Carolina, an estimated 71,300 people identify as transgender. In addition, an estimated 8,500 people ages 13-17 identify as transgender, according to a 2022 report by UCLA’s Williams Institute, which researches sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.
When Trump signed his executive order, Deanna Jones from Orange County said she felt “illegitimate” as a transgender person. Jones is the president of Harmony: NC LGBT+ Allied Chamber of Commerce.
“It was painful, and it’s painful to see North Carolina do that,” she said …
