News Analysis
House Democrats introduced a symbolic “transgender bill of rights” last month that has been erroneously hailed as a package of major civil rights reforms.
Shortly after five House Democrats held a press conference to introduce House Resolution 1209 on June 28, a windfall of national media and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights organizations celebrated it as a bill that would create federal anti-discrimination laws for transgender people.
“The proposal, dubbed ‘The Transgender Bill of Rights,’ would codify the Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock v. Clayton County decision that protects employees against discrimination for being gay or transgender,” wrote The Hill….