Speaker
AP Pittman
Graduate Student, Sociology
Duke University
Abstract
This paper aims to better understand the current situation regarding the recent flood of anti-trans laws and its impact on population mental health. Anti-trans laws are a marker of a larger pro-natalist, gender-essentialist movement in state (and national) politics. They directly target a very small proportion of the population, but their effects are more expansive. While these laws primarily and directly expose trans and gender non-conforming individuals to stress, they may also harm cisgender queer people and cisgender women. I will use Household Pulse Survey and BRFSS data to estimate the impact of the passage of anti-trans laws on trans/gender non-conforming, cisgender queer, and cisgender female residents of affected states.