The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban all official travel to Texas and Florida over policies that protect children, meaning that county officials can not travel into the states to conduct business.
The motion stated,
“We’re not gonna spend our money going to your states and it sends a message that we won’t support this egregious behavior.”
The egregious behavior the board mentions comes in the form of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, that was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis last week.
The law specifically states that children ages Kindergarten through 3rd grade cannot be injected with transgender ideology or taught about sex changes.
Politicians and mainstream media have dubbed the new law as the ‘Don’t say gay bill’ however, no-where in the legislation is the word gay mentioned. Instead, Governor DeSantis aims to allow parents to have the control of what their children are learning about sexual orientation through the third grade.
The Florida Law comes about a month after Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an order directing state officials to investigate parents who subject their children to ‘abusive gender transitioning procedures.’
Governor Abbott issued the order after the office of the Attorney General confirmed that a number of so called ‘sex-change’ procedures for minors already constitute child abuse under existing Texas Law.
From the office of the Governor:
Governor Greg Abbott today sent a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) directing the agency to conduct prompt and thorough investigations of any reported instances of Texas children being subjected to abusive gender-transitioning procedures. The directive comes after the Office of the Attorney General confirmed that a number of so-called “sex-change” procedures for minors already constitute child abuse under existing Texas law.
“Because the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is responsible for protecting children from abuse, I hereby direct your agency to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of any reported instances of these abusive procedures in the State of Texas,” reads the letter. “To protect Texas children from abuse, DFPS and all other state agencies must follow the law as explained in OAG Opinion No. KP-0401.”
The letter notes that Texas law imposes reporting requirements upon all licensed professionals who have direct contact with children who may be subject to such abuse, including doctors, nurses, and teachers, and provides criminal penalties for failure to report such child abuse. The Governor’s letter also mentions that the law imposes a duty on DFPS to investigate the parents of children subjected to gender-transitioning procedures, and on other state agencies to investigate licensed facilities where such procedures may occur.
Meanwhile, the supervisor of the Board has been accused by a whistleblower of giving a lucrative contract for a sexual harassment hotline that allegedly costs taxpayers $8,000 a call – to her best friend.
