Mark Takano: “I ask all of my colleagues to join me in supporting this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.”

I am disgusted by this political agenda that attacks the rights of school districts and parents to decide the policies of their schools in their own backyards.

“Young LGBTQI+ people will suffer because of today’s Supreme Court decision. This decision, however, doesn’t change the fact that these practices are still dangerous, disproven, and denounced by every major medical association in the…

At a moment when young Americans feel that the American dream is out of reach, this action only adds to feeling that the deck is stacked against them.

Providers who engage in these practices are actively endangering the wellbeing of young LGBTQI+ people and defrauding their families by promising to “fix” something that is simply not broken.