A gay doctor who is one of Louisiana’s only specialist paediatric cardiologists has left the state after the introduction of a Don’t Say Gay copycat bill and a ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth.
Jake Kleinmahon, who was one of just three doctors specialising in heart transplants for children in Louisiana, chose to leave the state with his family, as they no longer felt safe.
Kleinmahon met and fell in love with his husband Tom in New Orleans, and the couple expected remain in Louisiana, even after retirement. However, he told CNN that the state’s anti-LGBTQ+ legislation made him and his family feel unwelcome and that he ultimately “didn’t have a choice”.
So it doesn’t make being gay illegal? Because OP said “illegal to exist”.
It’s terrible, stupid, hurtful legislation, but do we really have to get so carried away with the sensationalism?
One of the first anti-Jew things since in pre-ww2 Germany was a one day boycott of Jewish businesses.
It starts small.
Sure, but there is a chilling effect.
Imagine being Jewish and the state decides that being Jewish is so bad that you can’t explain it to schoolchildren, even those who might have questions about it. You think, as a Jewish person, that it’s a healthy state to remain in?
This idea that teaching kids about sexual orientation means teaching about sex (MORAL PANIC PROTECT THE CHILDREN!!) is hot garbage, just a cover for conservatives to discriminate and scare gay people away. Just happens that one of them is the only pediatric heart surgeon they had.
Teaching that is ok if Jane has two daddies/mommies is not teaching about sexual intercourse or anything of the sort. They just don’t want kids to know that gay people even exist.
I agree.