text:  To Shannon Minter, senior counsel with the National Center for Lesbian Rights, the rush of conservative lawmakers to pass laws targeting trans youth looks like a moral panic. Just legislatures jumping on this bandwagon and repeating, like, wildly inaccurate claims. To groups that support the bans, the laws are, quote, efforts to rein in the predatory transgender industry, as the American Principles Project Terry Schilling wrote in a statement. The group did not respond to NPR's request for an interview.