Out gay Assemblymember Daniel O’Donnell of Manhattan is calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to bar all non-essential travel to a half-dozen states that have recently approved bills targeting transgender individuals and the broader LGBTQ community.
“In the past, New York State has demonstrated our commitment to the values of tolerance and diversity by halting non-essential state travel to states that have followed through and enacted anti-LGBTQ legislation, particularly when those laws put New Yorkers traveling at risk,” O’Donnell said in the letter. “I ask for you to again take that step and issue an executive order banning non-essential state travel to the following states, due to legislation that has recently become law…” The states are Arkansas, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
