Good, we don’t need California government employees in our state as they’re a cancer. Funny, at the Neighborhood Night Out event put on by the Cheyenne Police with local business support, we were just talking with a high school coach about how Wyoming enforces that you can only participate as the gender you were born (what a rational rule). And what a great community we have, as we had a great time interacting with our neighbors, and chatting with the mayor and a few police officers. There is a benefit to living in a city and state where one of the largest cities only has 60k residents. Consequently, every time we visit New California, I mean Colorado with their urban sprawl adopting Californian legislation, I can’t wait to return to my home of Wyoming where sanity prevails.
The decision is in response to the passage of allegedly “anti-LGBTQ” legislation in these states.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the state would restrict state-funded travel to Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming in response to the passage of allegedly “anti-LGBTQ” legislation in these states.
As a result of California’s AB 1887, a 2016 law that banned state-funded travel to any state determined by the California Department of Justice to in any way discriminate against the LGBTQ community, Bonta must maintain and post a list of the soon-to-be 26 states banned from California state-funded travel.
For Missouri, Bonta targeted SB 39, a bill that withholds education funding for schools that allow male-to-female transgender individuals to participate in female sports teams.
For Nebraska, Bonta cited LB 574, which he says, “makes it a departure from the medical standard of care to provide gender-affirming care for someone who is 19 years old or younger except subject to rigorous criteria in regulations to be developed by the [Nebraska’s] Chief Medical Officer.” Because LB 574 enters effect in November, Nebraska travel would only be banned beginning then.
For Wyoming, Bonta quoted SF 133, which bans public K-12 schools, and private schools competing against public schools from allowing male-to-female transgender students to participate in female sports teams.
“By preventing transgender individuals from participating in sports aligned with their gender identity, or by denying them access to critical healthcare, these legislative actions directly contradict the values of inclusivity and diversity,” Bonta said. “As mandated by AB 1887, we are, thus, compelled to impose restrictions on state-funded travel to Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming in response to their discriminatory laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community.”
The governors’ offices of Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming did not respond to requests for comment by publication.