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Organizations that Offer Support for Trans People

June 2023

To follow up on our Position Paper released in April, please find resources below that may be helpful in promoting efforts to block anti-trans bills, notably relative to the provision of gender-affirming care.

• ACLU is one of the main organizations opposing bills to limit trans rights. Below is a link to an effort to protect a trans woman in prison in DC and a map that shows which states have the most bills to limit trans rights:

https://www.acludc.org/en/cases/hinton-v-district-columbia-challenging-department-corrections-policy-discriminatorily-housing

https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights

• Them.us has an excellent list of 100 organizations in all 50 states that are fighting anti-trans rights:

https://www.them.us/story/orgs-fighting-back-anti-trans-legislation

• Npr.org has a report on anti-trans legislation in sports:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/28/1138396067/transgender-youth-bills-trans-sports

• Here and Now on NPR has a discussion of the impact of anti-trans campaigns on the mental health of trans youth in particular:

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/06/16/anti-trans-laws-mental-health

• CNN has a graph showing the increase in anti-LGBT bills.  In 2018 there were 42 bills filed in state legislatures; in 2023 there were 412:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/06/politics/anti-lgbtq-plus-state-bill-rights-dg/index.html

• Here is a newly published article by Allan Barsky, PhD, that offers some ideas about the ethical responsibilities of clinical social workers to oppose anti-trans bills: 

Barsky, A. E. (2023, June 16). Ethics Alive: Urgent Alert – “Some states have banned gender-affirming care for transgender minors. What are our responsibilities?” The New Social Worker.

https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/ethics-articles/urgent-alert-states-banned-gender-affirming-care-social-workers-responsibilities

Please let us know if you have other resources that we can share with CSWA members. CSWA will continue our efforts to oppose anti-trans legislation and other harmful practices.

Contact: Laura Groshong, LICSW, CSWA Director, Policy and Practice  
lwgroshong@clinicalsocialworkassociation.org