CALLING ON VOTERS: State Bills to Either Support or Oppose
Speak, Oppose, Support or do anything you would like, but please do something - and not nothing. Share with those in CA, AZ, AR, FL, IN, KA, KY, MI, MT, NE, MD,NH, NJ, ND, NY, OK, OR, SC, SD, TN, TX,
On September 30, 2022, I worked with a dozen lawyers, doctors, and activists to oppose AB 2098. This horrific bill had been passed by the state legislature and was sitting on the desk of Governor Newsom.
No one was planning to speak to or otherwisw rally, protest, or hold a press conference so we did it. We reached out to Children’s Health Defense and other major news outlets. No one joined us on camera but one person who never spoke to me other than to call me and yell at me.
Gov. Newsom had three choices:
Do nothing, and it would pass.
Veto it, and it would be dead.
Support it, and it would pass.
We had a wonderful volunteers who helped with publicity, social media, signs, video, and support with tables, mic and podium, as well as a large-screen TV. It was very professionally done.
There are groups stating that they passed out lots of flyers, translated them into different languages, and educated almost 90% of the communities on medical freedom and parental rights bills.
But in the audience, there were only about 45 people.
To prevent public apathy and inform you on disparaging bills, here are 2023 bills that have been proposed, and deserve public action.
Bills You May Want to Oppose
California
AB 223: when a person who is under age 18 files any petition for a change of gender, sex identifier, or name, and any associated papers, to be filed under seal.
AB 659: Adds the Herpes Pappiloma Virus (HPV) vaccine as a required vaccine on the list of child immunizations for attending school in grades 8 - 12.
AB 665: Hiding as a "children's mental health" bill, this allows children as young as age 12 to receive mind-altering drugs, gender-bending counsel, or even to run away with the help of the State.
Maryland
AB 378: Minors 14 years old an up would have adult capacity to consent to vaccination under certain circumstances, and provides this capacity does not include the opposing capacity, i.e., to refuse vaccination if a parent gives consent.
New York
AB 9963: Allows any age of a minors to consent to anymedical procedure without parental knowledge or consent.
A8378: Authorizes the health commissioner to develop and supervise a COVID-19 immunization program for state school aid, and requires immunization against COVID-19 for school attendance.
S75a: Allows that all adult vaccine records be provided to the state.
Washington
HB 1333: Identifies community-led, evidence-based solutions for combating “disinformation” and “misinformation”, addresses early radicalization signs, and develops public responses that are health-style.
Bills to Support
Arizona
SB 1026: Would restrict the "use of state monies prohibited for drag shows targeting minors."
SB 1028: Stops people from engaging “in an adult cabaret performance on public property or in a location where an adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a minor."
SB 1030: A change in county zoning laws defines businesses that hold “drag shows” as adult-oriented.
Arkansas
SB 43: Classifies a drag performance as an adult business similar to strip clubs, pornography, and sexually explicit content and activities. It outlaws performances or businesses that stage on public property or in proximity of minors. It would also restrict businesses to areas devoid of children.
Florida
SB 222 / HB 305: These are identical bills that place “vaccination or immunity status” as a protected class within the civil rights statute, thusly prohibiting discrimination in the workplace and public environments.
Indiana
SB 480: Prohibits physicians and other practitioners from knowingly providing gender transition procedures to those under age 18 years.
Kansas
SB 12: With few exceptions, the “Kansas child mutilation prevention act”, makes it illegal for physicians to perform gender-reassignment surgeries or prescribe hormone replacement therapy for those under 21. Exceptions include these cases: those born with a sex development disorder, such as hormone deficiency, and being born with “irresolvable ambiguous” sex. Banned medications include those that block puberty, including testosterone and estrogen.
SB 6: Limits health officer authority and that of the secretary of health and environment, to prevent infectious or contagious disease spread, removing the secretary’s authority to quarantine and impose penalties to the infected.
SB 20: Requires exemptions to a vaccine requirement for child care facilities through postsecondary educational institutions, without asking for specifics on the exemption request. Legislation would eliminate the requirement to have a meningitis vaccine to live in student housing.
HB 2007: Prohibits the secretary of state and health from requiring minors to receive a COVID-19 vaccination to attend child care or schools.
Kentucky
HB 12: Prohibits those under age 18 from receiving gender-affirming care from licensed health care professionals.
HB 177: A parental rights bill banning instruction on: gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, and sexual relationships. Requires school boards to develop policies that promote the involvement of parents.
HB 173: Bans or requires parent consent for items subject to ongoing educational culture wars: mask requirements, potentially obscene or vulgar materials and therapy sessions. It would also require teachers to tell parents if their child asks to use different pronouns or a name, or if their gender expression begins to change.
HB 162: Prohibits mental health professionals from changing a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity - AKA conversion therapy.
SB 115: Create a 1,000 foot perimeter around public amenities like parks, libraries, schools, churches and other locations that “cater to minors”) and where “adult-oriented” businesses (i.e., drag shows) also could not exist, and where businesses also are not allowed to host “adult-oriented” activities.
SB 150: Would prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education from recommending/requiring policies that keep minor student information confidential from their own parents. Under this bill, a school district would be required to notify parents of health and mental health services offered, those their own minor children seek through school. Another bill provision empowers parental engagement and awareness of school classes, curriculum, or instructions on human sexuality. Requires school districts to provide parents with a 2 week prior notice plus an opportunity to review materials prior to beginning instructional classes. It also requires alternate assignments be available to students whose parents disapprove.
Mississippi
SB 2076: Provides that policies and laws must distinguish between the sexes, and clarifies terms for the purposes of State Law.
HB 576: Prohibits people from knowingly performing or providing gender reassignment surgery or services to minors; provides any licensed medical professional who performs or provides gender reassignment surgery or services to a minor shall have his or her license revoked.
HB 1125: Known as the “Regulate Experimental Adolescent Procedures Act,” or REAP, prohibits Mississippi doctors from doing gender-affirming surgery or writing prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy, including puberty blockers to minors.
Missouri
SCS/SBs 49, 236, & 164: Establishes "Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act" where no physician or health care provider can provide gender transition procedures to minors, or refer any of them to another health care provider for said procedures. Any health care provider found referring or providing gender transition procedures to minors can be subject to discipline by the professional licensing board, for unprofessional conduct.
HB 498: Businesses that host drag performances are included in the definition of a sexually oriented business.
Montana
SB 99: Provides a Youth Health Protection Act: Enhances minors and their families protection from pressure to receive harmful or experimental puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or undergo gender reassignment surgery. Prohibits gender reassignment surgery to minors.
Nebraska
Legislature Bill 371: Prohibits those under age nineteen years or twenty-one years from being present at a drag show as prescribed.
Legislature Bill 574 - Adopt the Let Them Grow Act: Prohibits health care providers from administering to patients under age 19 medical interventions like puberty blockers, hormone treatments, and surgeries for gender dysphoria.
New Hampshire
HB 619: Prohibits gender transition procedures for minors, is relative to sex and gender in public schools, and the definition of conversion therapy.
HB 396: State recognition of biological sex. Provides that nothing in state law regarding birth records or motor vehicles is intended to prohibit a public entity from seeing male and female sexes or undermine the state's rational interest in recognizing the male and female sexes.
New Jersey
SB 3076: Would establish the "Child Protection and Anti-Mutilation Act" that would prohibit any person from engaging in gender reassignment surgery or puberty blockers - it applies to an unemancipated person under age 18 years.
North Dakota
HB 1254: Makes performing a transgender surgery on a minor a Class B Felony.
HB 1333: Bans adult cabaret performances like drag showsthat are held on public property, or within the actual line of vision of a minor.
Oklahoma
HB 1377: Would create the “Oklahoma Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act”; would outlaw gender-confirming care for minors. No public funding would go directly or indirectly to “entities, organizations or individuals” who provide procedures to minors.
HB 1011: Would outlaw gender-confirming care for any person under age 21, and prohibits public funds from going to any entity that provides gender-confirming care to them. The State Medicaid program would be banned from reimbursing procedures for anyone under age 21.
SB 408: Creaties the “Women's Bill of Rights”, defining them as individuals declared female at birth.
HB 2186: Bans engaging, organizing or authorizing “adult cabaret performances,” including drag. Also bans organizing drag queen story hours in public spaces and/or in areas where a minor have a visual.
Oregon
SB 452: Prohibits doctors from performing irreversible gender reassignment surgery on minors.
South Carolina
SB 243: Prohibits physicians from performing gender-reassignment surgery on minors under 18, and prohibits them from prescribing or administering substances that attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the minor's perception of his gender, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor's biological sex.
HB 3616: For all local ordinances relating to a sexually oriented business that enacts the "Defense Of Children's Innocence Act", providing that any business where Drag Shows are held is deemed to be a sexually oriented business. Prohibits public funding to host or provide a drag show.
Senate Joint Resolution 276: Provides that a person's biological sex at birth constitutes that person's gender for the purposes of the state constitution and laws.
South Dakota
SB 130: Grants a “philosophical belief” exemptions from mandatory vaccinations.
HB 1080: Prohibits certain medical and surgical interventions on minors ubder age 18.
Tennessee
SB 3: Creates an offense when a person engages in an adult cabaret performance on public property, or a location where an adult cabaret performance could be viewed by a minor.
SB 11: Makes permanent provisions regarding COVID-19 protecting citizens from government overreach. Ensures state and local governments cannot require COVID-19 vaccine mandates - that prior to local governments issuing mask mandates in public and in schools, state standards are first met. Also guarantees a hospitalized person may be accompanied by a family member during hospitalizations.
SB 1: Prohibits minors from undergoing an irreversible and harmful medical procedures that changes their gender identity
Texas
SB 250: Revokes a physician’s medical license if they perform gender reassignment surgeries, or prescribe puberty blockers to minors under age 18.
SB 249: Amend Chapter 167 of the Health and Safety Code, making it an offense for a person to facilitate genital mutilation procedures on a minor, or if a parent knowingly consents to or facilitates such a procedure.
Utah
SB 16 – Bans both transgender surgeries and puberty blockers for minors under 18.
West Virginia
HB 2007: Prohibits certain medical practices and limits gender-affirming medical care for those under age 18.
SB 103: Prohibits public funding of drag shows, and prohibits minors from being involved in/attending drag shows.
Wyoming
SB 144: Prohibits physicians from performing procedures for minors relating to gender transitioning/gender reassignment. Provides an exception and that gender transitioning/reassignment procedures are grounds for a physician's or health care provider's license to be suspended or revoked. Prohibits insurance coverage for minors for gender transitioning and reassignment procedures.
WHAT I REALLY THINK
Sticking one’s neck out can be very gratifying. It can also be very lonely and
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