Hours before three bills set to affect transgender youth were debated by the Utah House committee, hundreds gathered for a protest Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
A sea of blue pink and white flags were seen waving in front of the south steps at the Utah State Capitol. Around 250 people supported the rally in support of trans youth rights, and in protest of the bills they say would be harmful if passed by state legislators.
The first of three bills addressed Tuesday, which would prohibit gender affirming surgery for minors, failed by a 9-5 vote. But another would restrict transgender medical treatments and procedures, while the third would ban schools from treating a student in a way that does not match the students' sex on their birth certificate.
“They've heard their humanity debated up here on Capitol Hill and this year is even harder because the amount of bills that are there and it is all talking about them and trying to say that they don't need their health care, that they aren't who they are, that they are not affirmed in their identity," said Sue Robbins with Equality Utah.
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