Final Pre-Election 2024 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map

There are two major updates for the adult map this month. The first comes in Texas. Attorney General Ken Paxton began barring transgender adults from updating their drivers licenses, even with court orders, a major escalation in attacks against transgender people in the state, and even targeted name changes. This was not enough to justify a Do Not Travel warning initially. However, this week, Odessa, TX, a city of over 100,000 people, became the first to pass a transgender bathroom bounty law. The ordinance puts $10,000 bounties on trans people in bathrooms, and I expect other locales in the state to follow. This demanded the highest risk for Texas, not just for transgender people living there, but for those traveling through. Secondarily, national risk level has increased to high in response to a potential Trump presidency as well as increased likelihood of transgender people being a sticking point in national budget negotiations.

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