March protesting anti-trans legislation planned for Tuesday

Next Tuesday, May 16, a march on the Alabama State Capitol will be held to protest anti-trans legislation. 

The march is being organized by the Alabama LGBTQ Action Group, which is a coalition of community organizations and individuals in Alabama. The event is being dubbed “Drag Me To The Capitol” and will be held at 11 a.m.

During last year’s session and the current session the legislature has passed numerous anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills. Many prominent organizations including the Human Rights Campaign, have as recently as last week, warned about the harms these laws could produce. 

The bills include:

• HB261 – relating to two and four-year higher education institutions and  would require trans athletes to participate only on teams that align with their sex assigned at birth.
• HB405 also known as “LGBTQ+ Erasure Act” would prohibit LGBTQ+ people from bringing claims of sexual orientation or gender identity discrimination under state law. 
• HB401 – would ban…