Trans kids & activists stopped this hateful Arizona bill with their powerful testimony

Parent Chelsa Morrison testifies against an anti-trans health care bill in Arizona
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Moving testimony from trans kids and activists have successfully stalled an anti-trans health care bill in Arizona.

S.B. 1138 would prohibit gender-affirming care for trans youth and is one of 15 anti-LGBTQ bills Arizona lawmakers have put forth in 2022.

Related: Mississippi Houses passes an anti-trans bill. This time the target isn’t kids.

When it came time for the Health and Human Services Committee to vote on whether or not to advance S.B. 1138, Republican state Sen. Tyler Pace sided with three Democrats against the bill, leading to a 4-4 vote, stalling the bill in committee.

Pace attributed his decision to the powerful words of the more than a dozen people who testified before the committee against the bill.

“The testimonies we heard today about the many people who are using these avenues of medical treatments to save lives, to improve lives, I don’t want my vote to stop those great things,” he said. 

Among those who testified was Skyler Morrison, a 13-year-old trans girl who declared…

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