Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Friday that California has expanded its list of states to which it will not sponsor travel over LGBTQ+ laws it deems discriminatory, even as his own state’s lawmakers work to undo the travel ban altogether.
Bonta said the action is required under AB 1887, a 2016 bill by Assemblyman Evan Low, an openly gay Santa Clara County Democrat. “As the years have passed, the travel ban has had the unintended impact of further isolating members of the LGBTQ+ community in those states, and hampering Californians from being able to conduct research, business, and engage with all people from those states,” Atkins said.
Bonta said the state laws in question leading to the travel bans “target and marginalize transgender youth” by preventing them from participating in sports “in accordance with their gender identity,” as well as restrict access to “critical gender-affirming healthcare services” — sex-change hormonal treatments and surgeries.
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