Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to sign legislation that protects families who come to New York from states that have banned gender-affirming care.
New York will now join at least five other states including California and Minnesota in its passage of legislation allowing the state to be a safe haven for access to transgender care.
Bronson said the law is in response to the efforts to curtail the health care rights of transgender Americans in other states across the country. At the same time, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland and New Mexico lawmakers have passed legislation to shield transgender health care. In the last six years the LGBTQ+ community has been at a crossroads, Bronson said. While some states, like New York, have increased rights and protections, other states have focused on discrimination by restricting rights and access to care and protections. Nowhere has this been more prevalent than toward the trans and nonbinary community, he said.
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