California banned state-sponsored travel to five additional states on Monday, due to recent “discriminatory” LGBTQ legislation.
Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia joined the ranks of 12 more states that have been blacklisted by California for passing laws that prevent medical professionals from performing gender intervention on minors and defend fair competition in girls’ and womens’ sports.
“The states are a part of a recent, dangerous wave of discriminatory new bills signed into law in states across the country that directly work to ban transgender youth from playing sports, block access to life-saving care, or otherwise limit the rights of members of the LGBTQ community,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced.
State-funded travel will be prohibited as of July 1, pursuant to 2016’s AB 1887, which determined that “California must take action to avoid supporting or financing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans.”
“Assembly Bill 1887 is about aligning our dollars with our values,” Bonita remarked. “When states discriminate against LGBTQ+ Americans, California law requires our office to take action. These new additions to the state-funded travel restrictions list are about exactly that.”
The full list also includes Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas.
“Rather than focusing on solving real issues, some politicians think it’s in their best interest to demonize trans youth and block life-saving care,” Bonta continued. “Make no mistake: We’re in the midst of an unprecedented wave of bigotry and discrimination in this country — and the State of California is not going to support it.
Idiots. We ARE taking care of our youth, not allowing transgender “girls” to compete against actual female athletes.
I say quit supporting Calif. by sending firefighters to help put out their fires. Quit sending all help.
If there’s a way they should be removed as one of our states
That would be akin to throwing out a gargantuan tax-producing baby with a diminutive amount of liberal bath water. The only way liberals can gain power is by mobilizing minorities, illegal aliens, feminists, felons (They can vote now..) and weirdos to stuff ballot boxes, vote at several polls and kick and whine about how the government should solve all of their problems. It does not dawn on them that said agency IS our problem!
Heck yes! Sell Commufornia to Mexico, cheap! Make Mexico a deal they will not turn down. Put up a new wall around Commufornia on the northern and eastern sides. Move all the illegals into the new northern Mexican state and set the k-9s loose on anyone coming over, under, around or through the border wall without permission. Quit playing with these people. If they can’t get here legally then serve them to the guard dogs. I know that sounds cruel and mean but so does pulling crushed bodies of American children out from under cars driven over them by drunk illegal immigrants. Every single day somewhere in America a family get the call or the knock on the door that buckles their knees and breaks their hearts, just because the Democrats think more people coming over the border means more power for their party. I dare anyone to tell me that isn’t true. I dare any Democrat to think about what their desire for power and control is costing American familys every single day. I dare any American to think about all of this when they walk into the voting booth next time. I dare all Americans to think for themselves and not let some T.V. news person think for them. You all have good brains, Americans. It is about time you wake up and use those brains to think about what is good for your children and their future. Use those brains people, God gave them to us for a reason and just like your grandparents used to say, “An idle brain is the devil’s workshop!” Your grandparents knew what they were talking about and their brains served them well. They can serve you, too. You only have to use them. Use them or lose them is more then just an old saying. It is good knowledge and advice passed on to us from our ancestors and we are fools if we ignore it. We are even bigger fools if we don’t teach that kind of thing to our children, too!
I dunno. Those fires rather fortuitously commence where only our contracted slurry bombers can effectively (Actually, they’re not that effective..) suppress them. By the same token, wildfires provide our regime with ammunition to regulate the gentry with more “Climate Change” statutes/taxes/fees/fines/foibles/funds. Liberals crave power, and every opportunity they can exploit (OR orchestrate..) to expand their authority, they’ll fully embrace those methods.
Could you imagine the outrage if the states that bar these barbaric practices put a no travel policy against those states that allow them?
Every state should ban travel to California!
Or,
Why does ANYBODY who has a mediocre intelligence want to travel to California?
Marie Finn could have further explained why the ban on travel. Her description of “demonizing trans youth and blocking life-saving care” poses questions that she never bothered to mention by using some in-depth investigation not present in the article.
“Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia joined the ranks of 12 more states that have been blacklisted by California for passing laws that prevent medical professionals from performing gender intervention on minors and defend fair competition in girls’ and womens’ sports.”
What is meant by “gender intervention” and does “fair competition” involve preventing transgendered females who were formerly males from competing against girls who are born girls and remain girls?
I suggest that Finn should have presented both sides of the story in far more depth, and the reasons why the states listed passed the laws that they did. The article above thusly comes across as being biased against those states, and as such is tinged with liberal bias used too frequently by media under the guise of “journalism.”
What makes y’all think these 17 States want anyone from California in their states?
Can’t wait until the “big One” comes and clears out the western scum.
Leftists are all about conforming to their ideology or getting cancelled for not conforming. They are completely intolerant of diversity of viewpoints.
Good, we don’t want anything to do with commie Cali!!!
Christian,
Father,
Husband,
Patriot,
Floridian.
They keep going and going and going….Meanwhile, they’re jacking up our costs of living, offshoring our jobs, subordinating our government and citizens under foreign leadership and orchestrating even MORE conflicts, both domestically and abroad. When will the American people learn to get rid of these liberal A’Holes?
It is beyond me how anyone can say it is ok for transgender men are being allowed to compete in women sports totally insane
California! The land of freaks and every perversion there is!
Gavin Newsom, dictator of the People’s Republic of California, wishes to extend his power to the national level.
Charles, Newsom is up for RECALL! Also, if you pull up “The New Calif State” you see that 97% of it is RED.
It is interesting that CA is clearly being a bully here. There is far more harm to affirming pediatric transgenderism.
The American Pediatric Association initially condemned the practice but ultimately was bullied into submission.
Real science is clearly on the side of not pressuring kids to make permanent life altering decisions before they are even old enough to vote. The overwhelmingly majority of kids who delay such decisions will chose to affirm their birth gender when they are mature enough to make such decisions.
Hasn’t californian bast**ds, already noticed, that the rest of America, has already BOYCOTTED them? How many thousands have left CA? You are WICKED….Watch…earth quakes, wild fires, etc will strike you on your hear…..JUST JUDGEMENT….