Beloved community,
Each week, we gather the mounting evidence of what is being done—quietly, loudly, legislatively, and bureaucratically—to LGBTQIA2S people across this country. We call this report The Butcher’s Bill as a deliberate act of remembrance and resistance, echoing the early days of the AIDS crisis when harm was tracked because it could not be ignored.
This is not just a list.
It is a witness.
And this week, the witness is heavy.
Idaho HB 752 – Criminalizing Existence in Public Space
Idaho’s House Bill 752 would make it a crime for transgender people to use restrooms aligned with their gender identity in public and government spaces.
First offense: misdemeanor
Repeat offense: felony, with up to five years in prison
Let’s be clear about what this does. It transforms a basic human necessity into a criminal act. It invites surveillance, harassment, and confrontation in everyday spaces. It does not make anyone safer—it deputizes the public to police gender.
And as always, it will not stop with transgender people. Anyone who does not conform to narrow expectations of gender—especially women—will be subjected to scrutiny and suspicion.
This is not about safety.
It is about control.
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FDA Petition Targeting Estrogen – Quietly Restricting Care
A federal petition (FDA-2025-P-7321) seeks to “re-evaluate” the use of estrogen in gender-affirming care.
On paper, this sounds procedural. In reality, it is part of a broader effort to restrict access to medically necessary care through regulatory backdoors.
Gender-affirming hormone therapy is evidence-based and widely supported
This petition risks creating barriers: insurance denials, delays, overregulation
The burden will fall hardest on low-income, rural, and already marginalized people
We have seen this pattern before.
Care is not banned outright—it is made harder to access until it disappears in practice.
This is not a review of medicine.
It is a review of who is allowed to receive it.
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Iowa Law – Locking in Discrimination
Iowa has passed a law preventing cities and local governments from enacting protections beyond state law.
But here is the context: Iowa already removed gender identity as a protected class.
So this new law does something chilling:
It blocks local communities from restoring protections
It turns the absence of rights into the legal maximum
It erases existing local safeguards that were working
This is not about consistency.
It is about enforcing discrimination statewide and preventing communities from choosing inclusion.
It takes what should be a floor of dignity—and turns it into a ceiling.
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Federal Visa Rule – Identity as a Barrier to Entry
A new federal rule now requires visa applicants to list their sex assigned at birth, regardless of legal documents.
Forces people to contradict their own identity
Creates discrepancies that can trigger denials or scrutiny
Disproportionately harms transgender, nonbinary, and intersex applicants
This is not administrative clarity.
It is bureaucratic erasure.
It turns identity into a liability and transforms paperwork into a tool of exclusion—particularly for those seeking safety, education, or opportunity in this country.
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H.R. 7661 – Federalized Censorship of LGBTQIA2S Lives
The so-called “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act” would strip federal funding from schools that include materials referencing gender identity.
Defines transgender identity itself as “sexually oriented material”
Pressures schools into removing books, programs, and support systems
Creates a nationwide chilling effect on education
This is not about protecting children.
It is about controlling what they are allowed to know—and who they are allowed to see.
For LGBTQIA2S youth, this means erasure.
And erasure is never neutral. It is harm.
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Tennessee “Trans Registry” Proposal – Surveillance Disguised as Data
On March 17, 2026, Tennessee advanced a bill requiring providers to report data on patients receiving gender-affirming care—data that would be publicly released.
Violates medical privacy
Creates a de facto government list of transgender individuals
Discourages people from seeking care
Opens the door to targeting and harassment
We know where lists like this lead.
History has already taught us.
This is not data collection.
It is state-sanctioned exposure.
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The Pattern We Cannot Ignore
Taken together, these are not isolated policies.
They form a coordinated strategy:
Criminalize presence (Idaho)
Restrict care (FDA petition)
Lock in discrimination (Iowa)
Erase identity (visa rule)
Silence representation (H.R. 7661)
Enable surveillance (Tennessee)
This is how erasure happens—not all at once, but piece by piece, until living openly becomes legally, medically, and socially impossible.
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And Yet—We Are Still Here
Now hear me clearly.
We have been here before.
Our community has survived governments that ignored us, targeted us, legislated against us, and attempted to disappear us. We have buried our dead. We have marched in the streets. We have built networks of care when systems failed us.
And we are still here.
Here in Santa Fe.
Here in New Mexico.
Here in every place where people refuse to let cruelty have the final word.
We are still organizing.
Still protecting one another.
Still telling the truth.
Because no law can legislate away our existence.
No policy can erase our dignity.
And no administration gets to decide whether we belong.
So we do what we have always done:
We speak.
We resist.
We love—fiercely, publicly, and without apology.
And we build the world we deserve anyway.
In solidarity and hope,
MichaelAngelo D’Arrigo
President of the Board
Human Rights Alliance of Santa Fe
+ The Right Rev. M. A. D’Arrigo
Metanoia Ministries inc.
Convergent Catholic Communion
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