Stop the Assault on Trans Youth

Authors of Anti-Trans Bills in Louisiana Legislature: Senator Mike Fesi, Senator Beth Mizell, Representative Beryl Amedee, Representative Gabe Firment

The Louisiana Legislature convenes on April 12, and among the many issues they'll be addressing are four bills that target trans youth. These bills would cruelly remove trans youths' right to privacy and right to live authentically in their communities.

Senate Bill 156 by Senator Mizell and House Bill 542 by Representative Amedee would force trans students from kindergarten through college to compete in sports based on their sex assigned at birth or not at all.

Senate Bill 104 by Senator Fesi would create a new exception to minors' rights to consent to their own health care, making trans youth secure written consent from both parents (even if only one has custody) in order to access medically necessary and clinically appropriate health care.

And House Bill 575 by Representative Firment would subject medical providers to criminal penalties, including imprisonment, for providing medically necessary gender affirming health care to any trans person under 18. It would also subject teachers and other school personnel to criminal penalties if they did not out a trans student to their parents, placing young people at risk of violence and homelessness.

These bills threaten grave harm to trans youth in Louisiana. Please sign today to ask these legislators to withdraw their dangerous proposals.

To: Authors of Anti-Trans Bills in Louisiana Legislature: Senator Mike Fesi, Senator Beth Mizell, Representative Beryl Amedee, Representative Gabe Firment
From: [Your Name]

Trans youth in Louisiana face grave harm if HB 542, HB 575, SB 104, and SB 156 become law. These bills each, in some way, remove trans youths' right to privacy and further marginalize them in school, in their families, and in our communities. Louisianans don't support discrimination, and we don't support picking on young people whose lives are hard enough without the additional burdens your bills place on them. Please withdraw these bills and consider meeting with trans young people and our families so that we can share with you the very real issues we face, which your bills do nothing to address.