Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R)Alabama’s anti-LGBTQ bills – TWO bills – were signed into law today by Gov. Kay Ivey (R) because the “Cotton state’s” appetite for oppressing LGBTQ youth is that big.
Gov. Kay Ivey signs ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ anti-LGBT bathroom bills into law https://t.co/cvPKplQBfH
— Izzy Gould (@IzzyGould) April 8, 2022
As I reported yesterday, Alabama Republicans slipped a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ amendment into an anti-transgender bathroom bill (HB 322) at the last minute before voting on the legislation.
Modeled after Florida’s recent law, the bill bans the teaching of “divisive concepts” in schools in addition to only allowing people to use school bathrooms that align with the gender on their birth certificate.
GOP lawmakers in the state also passed SB 184 which criminalizes providing gender-affirming treatment to trans minors in the state. The new law makes prescribing puberty blockers or hormones or performing gender-affirming surgery on trans minors a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
AL.com notes that doctors have said that no such surgeries are done on minors in the state.
The Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics opposed the bill saying the hormones/puberty blockers come as part of an established standard of care and only after careful evaluations by teams of medical professionals.
JUST IN: Alabama Gov. Ivey signed two bills Friday that target trans youth and classroom discussion of LGBTQ identities. Alabama is the third state to pass a measure restricting transition-related care, and the first to impose criminal penalties. https://t.co/pJt5oGclFv
— NBC Out (@NBCOUT) April 8, 2022
To trans kids in Alabama and everywhere: We see you. We hear you. And we will fight alongside you.
Alabama lawmakers: We’ll see you in court. https://t.co/uCyDBFa7Fy
— ACLU (@ACLU) April 8, 2022
hi! in light of recent bullshit:
i am a transgender boy living in alabama. i am making this thread in a desperate attempt to make y’all see that i’m just a normal goddamn kid.— Pretzel is Tired (@FishesPretzel) April 8, 2022
i’m not transitioning because it’s fun. my self-image as a child was built around being the perfect, hard-working, well-behaved little girl that everyone loved to have around. i’m not tearing all of that down for the hell of it.
i’m not a rebel, i’m just a kid.— Pretzel is Tired (@FishesPretzel) April 8, 2022
transitioning costs us time and money and friendships and sometimes even family, okay? it’s not fucking fun and we’re not doing it to undermine some predetermined set of societal rules. we’re doing it to save ourselves the pain we’d otherwise go through.
— Pretzel is Tired (@FishesPretzel) April 8, 2022