In the wake of Texas pushing to investigate gender-affirming care as child abuse, California lawmakers have announced legislation to provide refuge for transgender children and their parents fleeing from the state.
"The history of the LGBTQ community is a history of criminalization: Society trying to erase us & then punishing us if we refuse to be erased, whether by death, incarceration, beatings, lobotomies/electric shock, etc," Senator Scott Wiener, who introduced the bill, wrote in a Twitter post Thursday. "CA won't be a party to this new phase of LGBTQ criminalization."
Idaho, Louisiana, Arizona, Alabama and Texas have proposed to send parents to jail for allowing kids to receive gender-affirming care, as well as jailing physicians who provide it. Texas has even threatened to remove trans children from their parents and place them in foster care.
The bill will reject any subpoena seeking health information about people who come to California to receive gender-affirming care — if the subpoena is related to their criminalization — bar out-of-state efforts to remove children from their parents and will de-prioritize out-of-state arrest warrants for people "violating" gender-affirming health care laws.
Similar legislation to protect those seeking reproductive healthcare in California is also currently pending, Wiener said.
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