—Signed legislation (SB 184) on that prevents medical professionals from providing care that aids transgender young people in transitioning, threatening doctors and nurses with up to ten years in prison. The new law criminalizes doctors for providing best-practice, gender-affirming care to transgender and nonbinary youth, making it a felony to prescribe hormones or puberty-blocking medication or perform gender-affirming surgeries. The law prevents educators and school nurses from encouraging students to withhold from their parents “the fact that the minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex is inconsistent with the minor’s sex,” putting many young transgender people at risk of alienation, neglect, or abuse from guardians if they are forced to come out in unsafe environments. Every major medical association in the US supports gender affirming care for trans youth.
—Approved a bathroom bill (HB 322) that requires students to use restrooms and locker rooms for the sex listed on their original birth certificates. The same new law limits classroom discussions on gender and sexual orientation, a version of the a “Don’t Say Gay” measure that goes further than some other states.
—Signed an anti-transgender bill (HB 391) into law requiring all Alabama athletes in K-12 public school to compete in sports based on the sex they were assigned at birth.
—Signed House Bill 24 into law. The new law allows taxpayer-funded child placement agencies to discriminate against qualified parents based on the agency’s moral or religious beliefs. The law was specifically introduced to allow agencies to refuse adoption and foster care services to qualified LGBTQ parents.
—Stated that she is against COVID vaccine mandates under the opinion that it should “be a families choice” while further stating families of transgender youth shouldn’t have the choice to provide their child gender-affirming care.