Kentucky GOP shoves through attack bill with only six minutes notice.
"He didn't say love one another except people of color, trans people, the disabled. He said LOVE everybody and yet we spend the whole time trying to destroy everybody. And if it wasn't destruction, why did you do it in the heat of the night? How dare you?"
- Representative Pamela Stevenson, who called out its passage “in the heat of the night” and blasted Republicans for using religious justification for the bill.
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Today in the Kentucky House of Representatives, a new anti-trans bill emerged. HB150, originally a “parents rights in education” bill, was secretly amended and a hearing was announced with the microphone off during the House lunch hour. Democrats only found out about the meeting when somebody tipped them off. The meeting was held within 6 minutes of announcing it and people physically had to run to hear the new bill, which was not given to the general public or announced online. Thanks to local reporter Olivia Krauth’s reporting, we know we know what is in the bill - she took pictures with her phone and posted them onto twitter. The bill, which combines Don’t Say Gay policies, forced outing, pronoun bans, and a gender affirming care ban for trans youth has one last cruel wrinkle: it tells doctors exactly how they are to medically detransition the trans teens under their care. It passed the House and was immediately rushed to the Senate for final passage, where it passed 30-7 on a nearly party line vote.
The bill itself contains several provisions and combines many anti-trans bills into a single, all-encompassing piece of legislation that targets many aspects of the lives of trans youth. One provision states that schools cannot adopt policies that “keep information confidential from parents,” a policy which will be used to forcibly out transgender students. Another states that school districts can’t require students to use any pronouns for trans students that do not conform to that student’s “biological sex.” The bill contains teaching bans on LGBTQ+ topics similar to Don’t Say Gay bills, would force schools to turn over student’s answers to private questionnaires and surveys, bans students from bathrooms not matching their gender identities, calls trans students in locker rooms “unsafe,” and bans gender affirming care for trans youth. Borrowing from South Dakota, one provision in particular is incredibly troubling: a forced detransition clause that tells doctors how to detransition teens in their care by “systematically reducing their hormones.”
"Representative Clerlynn Stevenson pointed out to the extreme hypocrisy in the bill. Typically, medical care bans are passed separately from Don’t Say Gay bills as there is too much contrast between a bill stating that parents have the right to direct their children’s upbringing and a bill that states parents have no right to direct their children’s medical care. Rep. Stevenson stated, “We have people screaming for parental rights and this tramples all of that. In one part of the bill, it says parents have the say. In another, it says parents have NO say. The word fiasco comes to mind.”
https://erininthemorn.substack.com/p/mics-off-6-minutes-notice-anti-trans
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