"US rightwing group allocates $6m for anti-trans messaging in 2022 midterms"
Independent Women's Voice (IWV), a conservative non-profit women's group, budgeted nearly $6m to promote anti-trans messaging in 10 swing states in advance of the 2022 US midterm elections. IWV used the Women's Bill of Rights, a relatively innocuous-sounding initiative presented as a crusade for women's empowerment, to promote traditional gender roles and characterizes transgender people as a threat to women's success and safety. Researchers and policy experts argue that these bullet points are thinly veiled attempts to stoke anti-LGBTQ+ fears and erase legal protections for transgender people. The connection between anti-trans and anti-choice initiatives runs deeper than electoral strategy; preventing women from getting abortions and blocking people from accessing gender-affirming care are attacks on bodily autonomy.