As reported by Mother Jones:
"Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country": Leaked emails give a glimpse of the religious-right networks behind transgender health care bans. Madison Pauly. Mother Jones. March 8, 2023.
The reporting begins:
"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.'
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In messages back and forth, some members of the group pushed Deutsch to make the bill even more restrictive. Vernadette Broyles, the president and general counsel of a Georgia-based law firm called the Child & Parental Rights Campaign, urged him to raise the age threshold to 18. Broyles, who is also affiliated with the conservative Christian legal powerhouse Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), warned that other religious-right groups might not support the bill if 'you start by giving away 16 and 17-year olds right from the outset.'"
The Emails
"the schupe archive." maia arson crimew published them. maia is the publisher, not the leaker.
On March 8: Installment 1 On March 26: Installment 2After the 2nd publication, maia's Twitter acct (@_nyancrimew) disappeared, as I noticed on March 30.
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