Social conservatives and LGBTQ rights activists condemned vandalism at the home of a state senator who sponsored a bill restricting transgender youth health care.
The vandalism happened at the home of Sen. Mike Kennedy, R-Alpine. Someone spray painted messages apparently aimed at his sponsorship of the controversial Senate Bill 16, which was signed into law earlier this year. That bill placed a ban on gender-affirming surgeries and a moratorium on hormone therapies for transgender youth. The ACLU of Utah has threatened a lawsuit over the new law.
The vandalism was also condemned by Equality Utah, which said in a statement it harms efforts to build bridges on Utah's Capitol Hill between the LGBTQ community and the Republican supermajority in the legislature. Equality Utah's statement said it understands many in the LGBTQ community are frightened by the volume of bills being introduced across the United States targeting them, but the group said it has been able to make progress in a conservative state like Utah.
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