Speaker Laurie Jinkins (D-Tacoma) and Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen (D-Seattle) issued the statement below on Attorney General Nick Brown’s legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order regarding gender-affirming care:
“We want to thank Attorney General Nick Brown for his leadership and for protecting Washington values by standing up to another attempt by the president to illegally discriminate against transgender people and medical professionals in our country.
“Trans people and their families will not be erased. We stand behind the attorney general’s efforts to defeat the president’s latest unlawful action.
“This attempt to erode the rights of an entire group of people is not only unconstitutional, it goes against who we are as a state. Washington has a strong tradition of protecting our most vulnerable residents. We will not back down when challenged. We will fight to protect our people and our way of life.
“While the Trump Administration will continue to promote chaos, AG Brown is hard at work protecting vulnerable communities at the federal level, and we will be hard at work on the same things here at home.”
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