California bans state funded travel to Ohio due to their anti-LGBTQ+ law – Gay Times Magazine
Evan Low – who serves as the chair of the California legislative LGBTQ Caucus – also released a statement regarding the importance of the restriction.
“Ohio’s decision to condone attacks on the health of its nearly 400,000 LGBTQ+ residents was widely opposed by the state’s medical community. It’s plain that this law only serves to discriminate,” he said.
“We will never put Californians at risk of falling victim to the same toxic standard by supporting the use of taxpayer dollars for travel in places where anti-LGBTQ discrimination is the law of the land.”
The travel restriction is set to take place on 30 September, which will make Ohio the 18th state that California implemented a travel ban on.
Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia, Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas are also included in the travel restricted list.
Effective 9/30, CA — in line w/ #AB1887 — is restricting state-funded travel to Ohio as a result of new legislation that threatens to deny medical care to members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Blocking access to healthcare is wrong. Period.https://t.co/8oWryHpN2g
— Rob Bonta (@AGRobBonta) September 24, 2021
Thank you 🙏 @AGRobBonta 🙏 for taking this important stand. We will never put Californians at risk by supporting the use of taxpayer dollars for travel in places where anti-LGBTQ discrimination is the law of the land. 👊🌈 @RobBonta @eqca https://t.co/FwJOjE4IBs
— Evan Low (@Evan_Low) September 24, 2021