California's ban on taxpayer funded travel to four states goes into effect

[DonViejo]

Source: LGBTQ Nation

Californias ban on non-essential taxpayer funded travel to four states over their anti-LGBTQ laws has officially gone into effect with the start of the new year.

The bill, AB1887, bans travel to Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kansas, and was authored by gay Assemblyman Evan Low. Gov. Jerry Brown [link:http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/09/california-bans-employees-traveling-states-anti-lgbt-laws/signed it into law] in September of last year. It was inspired by North Carolinas House Bill 2, which invalidated non-discrimination ordinances passed by cities throughout the state and requires transgender individuals to use the bathrooms and locker rooms matching the gender on their birth certificates. [link:http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/12/north-carolina-republicans-dupe-charlotte-city-council-refuse-repeal-hb2/A recent repeal effort failed].

Meanwhile, Mississippi landed on the Golden States list with a law allowing businesses to discriminate based on their religious beliefs, Tennessee with one allowing mental health specialists and therapists to also discriminate based on religious beliefs, and Kansas by allowing campus-based religious groups to discriminate against LGBTQ students.

Bills limiting bathroom use by transgender individuals were also recently filed in Texas, Virginia and Kentucky. Should they pass, one imagines they too will find themselves on the receiving end of Californias travel ban.

Read more: http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/01/californias-ban-taxpayer-funded-travel-four-states-goes-effect/

[LisaM]

1. Is this travel substantial enough to have an effect?

I sure hope so.

[displacedtexan]

2. Yes.

Just one example would be that no university or state level education or medical researchers/experts will attend any conferences in those states. It may not seem significant, but it will also influence experts in other states not to travel to those states, either. Principles matter.

[LisaM]

3. I totally agree!

Good to know it will matter.

[marybourg]

7. And organizers not tp hold conferences

in those states.

[Control-Z]

4. I love my state!

I was so upset on election night I didn't realize that my own ultra conservative county, OC, had finally turned blue!

[moonscape]

5. I love it too! It's like one giant panic room! n/t

[Control-Z]

8. It really is, isn't it?

I feel badly for all the sane people who don't get to live here.

[Crash2Parties]

6. I sure hope they add Texas...