"For Emma, what could have been a simple dollars-and-cents decision was far more complicated. The choice before her: whether to accept a scholarship offering nearly free tuition to attend law school at Indiana University in her home state or to pay $45,000 a year at the University of Minnesota. A few weeks ago, she moved to Minneapolis to start law school, a choice largely shaped by the fact that Emma is trans."
"Since taking office a second time, Trump has used his executive orders to revoke federal diversity, equity, and inclusion practices; prohibit trans female athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports; ban trans people from the military; and try to end gender-affirming care for people under age 19. Sixteen states now explicitly define "sex" as only male or female, typically based on the sex assigned at birth."
Emma chose to attend the University of Minnesota and pay full tuition rather than accept Indiana University's nearly free scholarship because she felt unwelcome in Indiana as a transgender person. State and federal policies have increasingly targeted transgender people through executive orders, bans in the military, restrictions on transgender athletes, and efforts to end gender-affirming care for minors. Sixteen states now narrowly define sex, and about 25 states ban gender-affirming care for youth. These political moves carry financial consequences and exacerbate preexisting economic disadvantages for transgender people, which can begin with family rejection and homelessness in adolescence.
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