With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays and the preparation for the new year, many Georgians were not thinking about the state legislature’s plans for when they meet up Jan. 13 for their annual lawmaking session.
But some transgender Georgians and their allies did, said Jeff Graham, executive director of the LGBTQ advocacy group Georgia Equality, and they’re not looking forward to it.
“People are scared. People have been nervous, people have been sad, people have been upset about this, but I think we’re entering into a period where people are very afraid,” Graham said. “Parents are afraid of coming and sharing stories about their kids, that it could lead to further discrimination, it could target their kids, it could out their kids, so I am very concerned that they will be afraid to come down and share with their own elected representatives the stories of their families.”
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