Hospitals, Schools, Ballot Initiative Among Issues Lawmakers Plan to Tackle
Mississippi’s failing hospitals, underfunded schools and lost ballot initiative are among issues lawmakers could tackle in 2024.
Mississippi’s failing hospitals, underfunded schools and lost ballot initiative are among issues lawmakers could tackle in 2024.
“LGBTQ+ Americans are under attack” and “living in a state of emergency,” the nation’s largest pro-LGBTQ+ political lobbying organization said in a statement this morning.
Capital City Pride will hold a “Coming Home With Pride” celebration in October 2022 that welcomes LGBTQ+ Mississippians who had previously left the state.
Mississippi could lose out on college championships and millions in revenue after Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law effectively banning transgender athletes from high school and college sports.
LGBTQ rights advocates say that Gov. Tate Reeves put transgender teen and young adult lives “in danger” today by signing Senate Bill 2536, “The Mississippi Fairness Act,” banning transgender students at public schools and colleges from participating in sports teams that match their gender.
Transgender teen and adult athletes in Mississippi could be forced out of sports teams that align with their gender or give up sports altogether after the Mississippi House approved Senate Bill 2536, sending it to Gov. Tate Reeves’ desk.
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