Alabama's Legislature approved a bill a bill "criminalizing medical care for young transgender people who are transitioning"...and as you might expect, the only out gay legislators in the state takes it personally. The N.Y. Times published a major article on that aspect of the just-ended legislative session today:
For Mr. Rafferty, a Democrat and the only openly gay member of the Alabama Legislature, the new laws represented not just a political defeat but a deeply personal one, too — a development he had trouble discussing without tears.
“I just still don’t really know how to feel other than just feel angry and worried about all the kids and their families who have been reaching out to me,” he said. “These kids are scared. Their parents are scared.”
An earlier protest at The Capitol Building.
The Alabama law, by the way, is set to go into effect on Mother's Day.
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