California’s LGBTQ+ travel ban now applies to over half of the states after these three were added

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, San Francisco Pride 2023
Photo: Rob Bonta Facebook Page

In a remarkable milestone, California will restrict state-funded travel to three more U.S. states that have recently passed anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, bringing the total number subject to the ban to 26, or more than half of all U.S. states.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta barred state-funded travel to Missouri, Nebraska, and Wyoming on Friday, in accordance with California Assembly Bill 1887, which requires the AG to restrict state-funded travel to states supporting or financing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender Americans.

The attorney general’s office is mandated under A.B. 1887, passed in 2016, to maintain a complete list of those states and act on their addition.

For the Missouri ban, Bonta called out S.B. 39, signed into law in June by Republican Gov. Michael Parson. The law prohibits public school districts, including charter schools and public and private colleges and universities, from…

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