It requires school administrators to inform a student’s parents if they identify as LGBTQ. It banned transgender students from using a restroom corresponding with their gender identity. The Alabama bill was especially sweeping.
“Radical political forces … are using the power that they are clinging onto to take decisions away from parents who want what’s best for their families.
“Our community has been under attack,” said Cathryn Oakley, senior counsel and state legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign. Much of the surge of anti-LGBTQ bills nationwide was directed at restricting services to transgender youth, by restricting their ability to participate in youth sports, use gender-appropriate restrooms or get appropriate medical care.
Legislators in 13 states passed laws this year that curb the rights of LGBTQ residents, according to a national gay rights advocacy group, including a measure in Alabama that its state policy director called “the most anti-transgender legislative package we have ever seen.”
