{"id":844687,"date":"2023-10-30T13:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/?post_type=gap&p=844687"},"modified":"2024-05-14T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T19:55:11","slug":"tate-reeves","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/tate-reeves\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate Reeves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Signed<\/a> a 2024 law restricting transgender people\u2019s use of bathrooms, locker rooms, and dormitories in public education buildings. The new law limits admittance based on sex assigned at birth. According to PBS the law, “also declares that people are either male or female ‘as observed or clinically verified at birth, without regard to a person\u2019s psychological, chosen, or subjective experience, feelings, actions, or sense of self.'”<\/p>\n

\u2014Signed<\/a> into law in 2023 the baselessly-named \u201cRegulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures (REAP) Act\u201d which prohibits minors from accessing transgender health care and bans any public funding from institutions that provide such care to minors. Transgender health care is not \u201cexperimental,\u201d and every major medical association supports<\/a> health care for transgender people and youth.\u00a0<\/span>After he signed the bill, <\/span>Reeves invited<\/span><\/a> Matt Walsh<\/span><\/a>, an anti-LGBTQ commentator to speak. <\/span>Walsh reiterated multiple lies<\/span><\/a> about the nature of transgender healthcare, and called it \u201cbutchery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/span>Baselessly<\/span><\/a> tweeted, \u201c<\/span>Sterilizing and castrating children in the name of new gender ideology is wrong.\u201d Those inflammatory statements do not describe transgender health care for youth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014<\/span>Signed<\/span><\/a> the so-called \u201cMississippi Fairness Act\u201d into law, requiring the state\u2019s schools to designate teams by sex assigned at birth and prohibiting transgender student athletes from participating in school sports in alignment with their gender identity. In a tweet, Reeves misgendered transgender girls and wrote, without basis, that the law would, \u201cprotect young girls from being forced to compete with biological males for athletic opportunities.\u201d <\/span>According to the bill<\/span><\/a>, any athlete whose sex is \u201cdisputed\u201d will have to provide a signed statement from a physician attesting to their genitalia, DNA, and hormone levels. <\/span>According to the Associated Press<\/span><\/a>, no senator even asked during the debate on the bill if there are transgender girls or women competing in high school or college sports in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2014As Lieutenant Governor, wrote<\/a>\u00a0a statement in favor of a religious exemption law allowing businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples, stating the law was needed following the U.S. Supreme Court Obergefell<\/i> ruling legalizing marriage equality nationwide. The bill codified discrimination\u00a0to deny marriage licenses, housing, essential services, and needed care to LGBTQ Mississippians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":844689,"template":"","categories":[139163,138754,139169,139451,138409],"tags":[],"region":[138589],"hashtag":[138636,138638,138632,139492],"class_list":{"0":"post-844687","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-elections","7":"category-gaps","8":"category-healthcare","9":"category-marriage-equality","10":"category-transgender","11":"region-mississippi","12":"hashtag-anti-transgender","13":"hashtag-law","14":"hashtag-politics","15":"hashtag-sports"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t