Note: Members of PFLAG can take action on all active bills targeting the trans community at the state level. Visit pflag.org/protecttranskids to take action in your state today. Want to take action and not seeing your state included? Please contact Patrick Cochran, Advocacy and Policy Engagement Senior Coordinator, to have your state legislators added! Alabama - Trans healthcare ban dies on the Alabama House floor. Under the proposed bill, medical professionals could have faced a 10-year prison sentence or a $15,000 fine for providing needed gender-affirming treatment. Kaitlin Welborn, an attorney for the ACLU of Alabama, said the death of this bill should be heralded as a “victory” for the trans community in Alabama. Arkansas - ACLU sues Arkansas over trans healthcare ban. The suit was filed on behalf of four trans youths and their parents, as well as two physicians who provide gender-affirming health care. Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed the bill in April, calling it a “vast government overreach,” but the Legislature overrode the veto a day later, making Arkansas the first in the country to pass a restriction on transition-related health care. District of Columbia. - Vigil held for two D.C. trans women. Almost 100 people attended the May 21st vigil in River Terrace Parkto honor the lives of Nona Moselle Conner, 37, and Gisselle Hartzog, 30. Friends and LGBTQ activists who participated in the vigil called on the community to honor the two women by speaking out and taking action to address the struggles that they and many other transgender women of color have endured due to prejudice and discrimination. Indiana - South Madison School Board orders three teachers to remove rainbow flags from their classrooms. District officials said that pride flags violate the school's no "political paraphernalia" policy. Oklahoma - State legislature adjourns without enacting SB2, the anti-trans student athlete bill. Senate Pro Tempore Greg Treat (R-Oklahoma City) called the legislation “"a solution in search of a problem today." Pennsylvania - Tyler Titus wins primary election for Erie County Executive. If Titus, who currently serves as President of the Erie County School Board, wins the General Election in November, they will become the first openly trans county executive in the country. Lawmakers vote down amendment to remove homosexuality from state obscenity law. Current law bans “the distribution to minors of materials such as books, pictures, and videos which depict ‘acts of homosexuality.'” Tennessee - Gov. Lee signs anti-trans bathroom bills. Tennessee will become the first state in the United States to require businesses and government facilities open to the public to post a sign if they let transgender people use multiperson bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms associated with their gender identity. Gov. Lee also signed a bill that puts public schools and their districts at risk in civil lawsuits if they let transgender students or employees use multiperson bathrooms or locker rooms that do not reflect their sex at birth. Texas - Trans athlete ban dies in Texas House regular session. SB29, a trans athlete ban, died in the House after missing the deadline Tuesday night for passing all Senate bills. SB29 was among 13 anti-trans bills the legislature considered this session, all of which missed deadlines of consideration and died in the State House. PFLAGers across the state remain vigilant, however, as there are some lawmakers asking the Governor to call a Special Session specifically to re-address some of the anti-trans bills. | 
