Republican lawmakers in Florida submitted a batch of anti-LGBTQ bills this week with just hours to spare before the 2020 legislative deadline. If signed into law, the four bills would walk back local ordinances that protect LGBTQ employees, legalize the controversial practice of 'gay conversion
Republican lawmakers in Florida submitted a batch of anti-LGBTQ bills this week with just hours to spare before the 2020 legislative deadline.
Equality Florida, the state’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, said the"draconian legislation" would attack the rights of the state's LGBTQ population and make the 2020 legislative session"one of the most hostile to LGBTQ Floridians in recent memory." Florida Democratic Rep. Shevrin Jones, who considers himself the state's first openly gay African American legislator, spoke out against the bills immediately, calling them discriminatory and shameful.
"Transgender youth are some of the most at-risk in our community. It is outrageous that conservative legislators would threaten their health and safety," Duncan said."Medical professionals, not politicians, should decide what medical care is in the best interest of a patient. Forcing a doctor to deny best practice medical care and deny support to transgender youth can be life-threatening.
Baxley said the proposed bill protects children from having their parents make decisions about their health that the child may regret later in life.
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