Gender-affirming Medication Ban Passed by Alabama Lawmakers

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Alabama lawmakers approved sweeping legislation to outlaw gender-affirming medications for transgender kids

A similar law banning medications in Arkansas was put on hold by the courts, and advocacy groups vowed to quickly challenge the Alabama measure if signed into law.

“If passed and signed into law, Alabama will have the most deadly, sweeping, and hostile law targeting transgender people in the country,” Chase Strangio, deputy director for Trans Justice with the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project, said in a statement. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has warned states such laws and policies may violate the Constitution and federal law.The Alabama Senate advanced separate legislation related to public school bathrooms and discussions of gender and sexual identity in early grades.

Senators voted 26-5 to approve legislation mandating that K-12 students can only use multiperson bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with the gender on their original birth certificate, rather than their current gender identity.“Don’t Say Gay”The Alabama language would “prohibit classroom instruction or discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through the fifth grade in public K-12 schools.

 

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Have they read the text of the 14th amendment of the Constitution declaring equal rights under the law? Evidently not.

So the rate of teen suicides will be going up? They don’care about kids-just their own views.

Absolutely right ✅️

Absolutely right ✅️

Kids Do not need this. They need love ❤️ They need to be children Innocence

Alabama and Florida carrying USA rn ngl.

I feel bad for the 5 kids that legitimately needed it.

Y’all just made California mad

Good, children don't have the ability to choose what they want in life. That's why we don't let them vote, smoke, or drink. Hormone blockers have much greater implications for one's life.

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