Tennessee and Mississippi GOP-dominated legislatures have sent bills banning gender-affirming care for minors to their Republican governors’ desks.
“Gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth is safe, necessary, effective, and often lifesaving,” the lawyer stressed. “Legislators are risking trans young people’s health, well-being, and safety with this dangerous legislation. We urge Gov. Lee to veto this overreaching, discriminatory bill, or we will see him in court.”
Cameron-Vaughn’s colleague McKenna Raney-Gray, LGBTQ Justice Project staff attorney at the ACLU of Mississippi, delivered a similar message aboutAfter the Mississippi House of Representatives last month passed that bill 78-30, with four Democrats joining Republicans, the state Senate on Tuesday approved it 33-15, voting along party lines.
“This is a devastating development for transgender youth in Mississippi and heartbreaking for all of us who love and support them,” said the ACLU’s Raney-Gray. “This care was already too difficult to access across the state for transgender people of any age, but this law shuts the door on best-practice medical care and puts politics between parents, their children, and their doctors.
“To criminalize that care is a direct assault on the physical, emotional, and mental health of trans youth, and we will see negative outcomes for our trans youth and their families in [Mississippi] as a result,” they warned. “Regardless of the outcome of this legislation, we will remain here in Mississippi to support, affirm, love, and care for the trans folks and their families impacted by this attack.
Ivy Hill, director of gender justice for the Campaign for Southern Equality, said that “this bill — and an overwhelming wave of similar legislation moving quickly in states across the country — is cruelly targeting transgender youth and their doctors.
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