Louisiana Senate Votes To Protect Children From the Predations of Transgender Activists
This isn't a done deal yet...
From The Advocate/Nola.com:
Louisiana lawmakers on Monday signed off on bills that would outlaw gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth and talk of gender and sexuality in school classrooms, solidifying the Legislature's rightward shift on LGBTQ+ rights amid a national conservative movement targeting those issues.
The state Senate approved House Bill 648, the ban on transgender health care, on a 29-10 vote that fell mostly along party lines — though Sens. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, Gregory Tarver, D-Shreveport and Gary Smith, D-Norco bucked their party and voted for the ban. The Senate also approved House Bill 466, which would ban talk of gender and sex in school classrooms, and House Bill 81, which would allow public school teachers to ignore students' requests to be addressed by alternate pronouns.
All three bills are part of a wave of laws targeting LGBTQ+ people nationally, pushed by Republicans and national groups and boosted by conservative media. Until now, Louisiana has been slower than some Republican-led legislatures to adopt such bills — a trans health care ban focused on youth was proposed last year but died without a hearing — but the proponents are finding more success this year.
HB 648's supporters tout a need to protect children from a "gender industry" trying to influence more youth to become transgender. Overlooking the consensus of major American medical groups, they say hormone therapies, puberty blockers and gender-affirming surgical procedures targeted by the bill are dangerous and unproven.
Stomach-churning bias in this writing…
We’ll let it go as it is. We know who does and does not care about the overall best health of young people. (Hint: It’s not green-haired, pierced, tattooed freaks.)
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