The 2023 increase in anti-LGBTIQ+ bills preceding the 2024 U.S. presidential election manifested the most aggressive punitive freedom restrictions and the greatest expansion across all (even Democrat-run) states and criminalisation of a variety of TGD people, family supporters and professionals. The expanded freedom reduction within anti-LGBTIQ+ bills by 2023 indicated (neo)fascist efforts beyond the politically symbolic, towards pragmatically effective freedom reductions especially targeting TGD ‘cultural Marxist enemies’, to reduce freedom generally (Mason, 2022).

The study showed the 2023 bills upped targeted freedom restriction age-groups from childhood to adolescence/adulthood, extended targeted education contexts from elementary to higher education, expanded targeted locations from school bath/changerooms to spaces beyond education (e.g. ‘in public’) and extended targeted groups from TGD to broader groups (LGBTIQA+ people, professionals, women, parents, religious people, patients, citizens).