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This partner brief from MAP and Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE) offers new analysis which shows that transgender people are widely accepted and supported by their families, workplaces, faith communities, and more.
Bans on best-practice medical care represent one of the most extreme and coordinated political attacks on transgender people in recent years. These bills target transgender youth by blocking their access to best-practice medical care.
This letter to the editor, penned by MAP’s Kellan Baker, appeared in the New York Times in response to a February 2026 guest essay by Jesse Singal.
Since 2020, political attacks on LGBTQ people, and especially transgender people, have escalated — but LGBTQ people and allies have also fought back and won important victories. This forecast takes stock of recent years in LGBTQ legislation at the state level and suggests what may lie ahead in 2026.
Parents of transgender children, like most parents, want to do what is best for their child—and that includes ensuring that their child is able to receive the prescribed medical care they need. Read more about why this care is so important for transgender youth, and why bans are so harmful.

The bottom line is that this administration has moved quickly to dismantle and disrupt the hard work over decades to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination, to provide safe and supportive environments for LGBTQ youth, and to ensure that transgender people can live their lives with safety and joy.