Current Events > California BANS state travel to Florida and 3 other states for being anti-trans

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ZannoL
06/30/21 9:33:58 PM
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https://apnews.com/article/california-florida-lifestyle-travel-business-048670c6461032de3cb67154d624ab13

California added five more states, including Florida, to the list of places where state-funded travel is banned because of laws that discriminate against members of the LGBTQ community, the state attorney general announced Monday.

Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta added Florida, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia to the list that now has 17 states where state employee travel is forbidden except under limited circumstances.

Lawmakers in 2016 banned non-essential travel to states with laws that discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. The 12 other states on the list are: Texas, Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee.

The five states newly added to the list have introduced bills in their legislatures this year that prevent transgender women and girls from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity, block access to health care and allow the discrimination of the LGBTQ community, Bonta said.

Florida, Montana, Arkansas, and West Virginia passed laws that prevent transgender women and girls from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity.

North Dakota signed into law a bill allowing certain publicly-funded student organizations to restrict LGBTQ students from joining without losing funding.

Arkansas passed the first law in the nation to prohibit physicians from providing gender-affirming healthcare to transgender minors regardless of the wishes of parents or whether a physician deems such care to be medically necessary.

These lawmakers would rather demonize trans youth than focus on solving real issues like tackling gun violence beating back this pandemic and rebuilding our economy, Bonta said.

The state law has exemptions for some trips, such as travel needed to enforce California law and to honor contracts signed before the states were added to the list. Travel to conferences or out-of-state training are examples of trips that can be blocked.

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Kolibri X
06/30/21 9:35:38 PM
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Cool. Hopefully California can ban itself from the rest of America.

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Cornmuffins
06/30/21 9:36:18 PM
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Topic title seems a bit misleading
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FortuneCookie
06/30/21 9:37:19 PM
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Damn. Now you can't travel from Disneyland to Disney World.
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IShall_Run_Amok
06/30/21 9:38:14 PM
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Fair, next.

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armandro
06/30/21 9:38:55 PM
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Captain_Qwark posted...
What does state funded travel include exactly?
school field trips?

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NoxObscuras
06/30/21 9:39:16 PM
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There was already an equally misleading topic on this. The ban only applies to employees of the state of California that are traveling to those states on business. So basically we won't be using tax dollars to travel to those states.

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sktgamer_13dude
06/30/21 9:39:34 PM
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Cornmuffins posted...
Topic title seems a bit misleading

I mean it does say state travel.

First glance I thought same thing as most probably do but then I saw the state travel part and assumed it meant for state employees doing state work.
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masticatingman
06/30/21 9:39:52 PM
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Sounds like a headline grab more than anything with the state funded thing.

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Slayer_22
06/30/21 9:39:55 PM
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Oh, I was like 'wtf, I can't visit family' but then topic title being misleading. Lol.
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Jackal4
06/30/21 9:40:50 PM
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Joke's on them. We don't want Californians in our states, either.

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Cornmuffins
06/30/21 9:41:33 PM
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lol at the Cali haters
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Dark_SilverX
06/30/21 9:41:48 PM
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nice. waste of time and resources having those employees travel to different states and less spread of the covid.

Newsom is on

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ZannoL
06/30/21 9:46:25 PM
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Dark_SilverX posted...
Newsom is on
Indeed.
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FarFromFields
06/30/21 9:47:46 PM
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Kolibri X posted...
Cool. Hopefully California can ban itself from the rest of America.
This comment doesn't hurt California the way you think it does.

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masterpug53
06/30/21 9:48:38 PM
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Eh, it's not necessarily the topic title's fault for being misleading - this was almost the verbatim headline I saw in my own newsfeed (minus the anti-trans part), to the point where I went into the article assuming it was a covid-related travel ban.

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Cornmuffins
06/30/21 9:57:57 PM
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FarFromFields posted...

This comment doesn't hurt California the way you think it does.


He's a peanut brained Trump slurper just fyi
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ZannoL
06/30/21 9:58:26 PM
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FarFromFields posted...
This comment doesn't hurt California the way you think it does.

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Smashingpmkns
06/30/21 9:59:13 PM
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Was there a lot of state funded travel from Cali to Florida to begin with?
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gatorsPENSbucs
06/30/21 9:59:21 PM
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Cornmuffins posted...
Topic title seems a bit misleading
Yah, I flew home from California today and kinda got scared lol.

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ThePhantomMedic
06/30/21 9:59:37 PM
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Kolibri X posted...
Cool. Hopefully California can ban itself from the rest of America.
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Shezarr
07/01/21 6:58:15 PM
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Endofall posted...
I don't think it's possible for a state to actually ban all travel to other states.
Literacy is a hell of a thing.

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Flauros
07/01/21 7:00:42 PM
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Kolibri X posted...
Cool. Hopefully California can ban itself from the rest of America.


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Shezarr
07/01/21 7:03:20 PM
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Imagine being so upset about a state not tolerating anti-lgbt discrimination. Definitely doesn't say anything about you!

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radical rhino
07/01/21 7:08:33 PM
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California is insane.

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Shezarr
07/01/21 7:10:43 PM
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radical rhino posted...
California is insane.

Shezarr posted...
Imagine being so upset about a state not tolerating anti-lgbt discrimination. Definitely doesn't say anything about you!


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Will_VIIII
07/01/21 7:13:32 PM
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MAGAs showing their unabashed bigotry ITT what a shock

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catboy
07/01/21 7:19:55 PM
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NoxObscuras posted...
There was already an equally misleading topic on this. The ban only applies to employees of the state of California that are traveling to those states on business. So basically we won't be using tax dollars to travel to those states.
thanks

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The Popo
07/01/21 7:23:38 PM
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NoxObscuras posted...
There was already an equally misleading topic on this. The ban only applies to employees of the state of California that are traveling to those states on business. So basically we won't be using tax dollars to travel to those states.

Thanks for clearing that up. I was thinking that as horrible as the discrimination is, barring travel as a whole seemed like it would run into a million legal ramifications and be deemed as unconstitutional.

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Shezarr
07/01/21 7:24:25 PM
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The Popo posted...
Thanks for clearing that up. I was thinking that as horrible as the discrimination is, barring travel as a whole seemed like it would run into a million legal ramifications and be deemed as unconstitutional.
You could have just, idk, read the topic title or something equally crazy

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armandro
07/03/21 3:56:55 PM
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Finally understand people who hate California

Didn't know they were just MAGA people

crazy bro

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catboy
07/03/21 3:57:28 PM
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armandro posted...
Finally understand people who hate California

Didn't know they were just MAGA people

crazy bro
it's not all travel, it's just state funded travel

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armandro
07/03/21 4:05:09 PM
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catboy posted...
it's not all travel, it's just state funded travel
I meant the reaction to the news
a lot of people showed a lot

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Frizzurd
07/03/21 7:44:19 PM
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My mom heard this, and thought it was all travel.
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Grischnak
07/03/21 7:53:17 PM
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How exactly does this help trans people? It just seems like it hurts state employees that want to go to work training in banned states or whatever. I really don't really understand the logic.
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RchHomieQuanChi
07/03/21 8:02:50 PM
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Grischnak posted...
How exactly does this help trans people? It just seems like it hurts state employees that want to go to work training in banned states or whatever. I really don't really understand the logic.

I guess the idea is to prevent potential talent from going to those states to work.

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