Before the dust had cleared on the 2020 election, Republicans in statehouses across the country had already regrouped and coalesced around a core crusade — revived and revitalized — that was anti-woke and anti-vote.
Having lost control of the presidency and Congress, they funneled their quest for control into voting booths, bathrooms, locker rooms, classrooms and doctors’ offices.
If they couldn’t control the highest rungs of power, they would look to exert control over Americans’ lives at the lower rungs.
They would come to insert themselves into the most intimate of activities — between voters and ballots, between families and doctors, between teachers and students.
In that fight, Arkansas passed the first-in-the-nation law outlawing gender-affirming care for transgender children.
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