White Home Press Secretary Jen Psaki has hit out at "excessive and dangerous" payments signed into regulation in Arizona and Oklahoma that focus on transgender rights and abortion.

"Immediately, 4 excessive and dangerous payments have been signed into regulation in Oklahoma and Arizona, three concentrating on transgender youth (2 AZ, 1 OK) and one reproductive well being care (AZ)," Psaki mentioned in a tweet on Wednesday.

"These legal guidelines are unacceptable and we can't cease preventing for justice and equality."

Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey and Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt each signed payments into regulation on Wednesday that stop transgender women and girls from taking part in on women and girls's sports activities groups.

Ducey additionally signed a measure that prohibits gender affirmation surgical procedure for minors, in addition to one that might outlaw abortion after 15 weeks of being pregnant if the U.S. Supreme Courtroom permits it.

His letter to Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a supporter of abortion rights who's searching for to exchange Ducey, mentions the Mississippi abortion regulation that is beneath evaluate by the nation's highest courtroom.

The courtroom's determination in that case, Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies's Well being Group, may overrule Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that established the correct to an abortion earlier than fetal viability.

Caroline Mello Roberson, the regional director of NARAL Professional-Selection America, mentioned politicians pushing abortion bans are "banking" on the Supreme Courtroom upholding the Mississippi regulation and overturning Roe later this yr.

"If that occurs, it would open the floodgates to a barrage of harmful laws that offers politicians extra energy and management over our lives," Roberson mentioned in an announcement. "It has by no means been extra clear that we'd like elected officers who will serve our communities, not legislate away our rights for political acquire."

LGBTQ advocates condemned Ducey and Stitt for the legal guidelines concentrating on transgender youths, saying they additional marginalize an already susceptible neighborhood and famous that they have been signed into regulation a day earlier than Transgender Day of Visibility on Thursday.

The difficulty of transgender athletes in women sports activities groups has turn out to be a political flashpoint, with a number of states enacting anti-transgender sports activities bans this yr.

Republicans argue that transgender athletes have a bonus when competing in women sports activities groups, however opponents say these claims are baseless.

A 2017 report within the journal Sports activities Drugs that reviewed a number of research discovered "no direct or constant analysis" that implies transgender folks have an athletic benefit at any stage of their transition.

"Whereas the issues transgender and nonbinary youth trigger communities are hypothetical, the harms these legal guidelines will trigger them are very actual," mentioned Sam Ames, director of advocacy and authorities affairs at The Trevor Mission, a nonprofit organzation that works to stop suicide amongst LGBTQ youth.

"This onslaught isn't an accident; it's overwhelming by design and in direct response to progress within the battle for trans rights."

In the meantime, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Nationwide Middle for Lesbian Rights have pledged to sue to dam Arizona's regulation banning gender-affirming surgical procedure for these beneath the age of 18.

"The federal government cannot violate our rights and not using a battle," the ACLU tweeted. "We, alongside @ACLUaz and @NCLRights, will see you in courtroom."

The White Home, together with Ducey and Stitt's places of work, have been contacted for extra remark.

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White Home Press Secretary Jen Psaki (L) arrives at a White Home every day press briefing on the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home on March 21, 2022, in Washington, DC.Alex Wong/Getty Photographs