Legislation on transgender issues convinced this Ohio family to leave the state
"We are not the parents who they want to allow to have rights."
"We are not the parents who they want to allow to have rights."
"Christians express love when we adjust our environment and our systems to accommodate the needs of others."
'Just before Christmas, DeWine will decide whether to be needlessly cruel, or whether to follow the best available science as well as basic human empathy and decency.'
'Yesterday was beyond disheartening as legislators put politics over the safety of some of our most vulnerable children.'
Gov. Mike DeWine now has 10 days to approve or reject the anti-transgender bill, parts of which he has previously opposed.
As incidents of anti-transgender violence spike across the state, Ohio law enforcement agencies struggle to accurately track and document reports of anti-trans hate crimes.
The Republican Ohio senator calls gender identity “unscientific and untrue” and a “harmful ideology.”
‘I want people to feel they have a voice through me,” says Damon Sherry.
The hearing featured nearly every transphobic trope in the playbook. Trans Ohioans were equated with voyeurs, predators & rapists.
The bill's sponsor mentioned bathrooms only once in her testimony, choosing instead to focus her words on invalidating trans identity.