The sudden announcement caught many in the LGBTQ+ community off-guard BsWest Scottsdale in the Northeast Valley opened in 1988
Hobbs also signed an executive order to ensure the state employee health care plan covers medically-necessary gender-affirming surgery
"The consistent targeting of LGBTQ youth by the Arizona Legislature is a disgrace. School is sometimes the only place these kids feel safe"
According to the Associated Press, when specifically asked if he believed that there “are really transgender people,” the governor paused
“Today alone, on the eve of Transgender Day of Visibility, three anti-trans bills were signed into law across the country"
“We’re talking about legislating bullying against children who are already struggling just to get by” one lawmaker said
The legislation was one of Arizona’s 15 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced so far this year, the most of any state