These Leaked Emails Reveal the Coordinated Attack on Trans Health Care

All those bans on gender-affirming care aren't random.

On a Saturday afternoon in August 2019, South Dakota Republican state Rep. Fred Deutsch sent an email to 18 anti-trans activists, doctors, and lawyers with the text of a bill he planned to introduce that would make it a felony for doctors to give transgender children under 16 gender-affirming medical care. “I have no doubt this will be an uphill battle when we get to session,” Deutsch warned the group. “As always, please do not share this with the media. The longer we can fly under the radar the better.”

The message was one in a trove of emails obtained by Mother Jones between Deutsch and representatives of a network of activists and organizations at the forefront of the anti-trans movement. They show the degree to which these activists shaped Deutsch’s repressive legislation, a version of which was signed into law in February, and the tactics, alliances, and goals of a movement that has sought to foist their agenda on a national scale.

At the time, there was little precedent for such bills, and Deutsch’s legislation, called the Vulnerable Child Protection Act, was killed in the Senate after doctors showed up at the South Dakota statehouse to argue they should not be sent to prison for following the medical consensus. “Though our session in SD is now over and our efforts to protect gender-confused vulnerable children failed, I continue to receive ugly emails and social media posts,” Deutsch complained to the group in March 2020.

Indeed, Deutsch’s bill has proved influential in the recent surge of anti-LGBTQ lawmaking. In this legislative session, at least 18 states have considered bills containing language closely resembling the text of the Vulnerable Child Protection Act. The leaked emails reveal how Deutsch’s proposal helped proponents of the national movement to restrict gender-affirming care and establish a playbook for their now-common attacks.

Reporter Madison Pauly takes you behind the emails in our new video.


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[sacrebleu]

I never though this process was random anymore than acts against women's rights or Trump's coup attempt were random acts.

[B_Bodziak]

MJ, Please put a link to the full report in a pinned comment. Viewers cannot do it because YT auto deletes viewer comments with links unless the link is to another YT video.

[bigyoshi]

thank you for posting this. i’ve been trying to tell my family about the ever increasing risk of trans genocide and they won’t listen. this video is just short enough that they might watch it. again, thank you.

[Time_Is_Left]

Yea. Snakes slither. They don’t hide what they do because they think they’re decent people lol They know what they are

[Notfunnysam]

Thanks. This channel does important work and isn't afraid to criticize Democrats when they deserve it.

[JamesFox]

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[FIatts]

Politicians actually doing the right thing? Let’s go, one step closer to our society going back to normal😂

[wb]

Kids shouldn't go under the knife under 18.

[edwardTisk-ixnj]

Thank God.
Children don't need to be subjected to this eugenics.

[MartinMartin-bhke]

"coordinated attack"

Accuse the opposition of what you do.