LGBTQ Agenda: Hearing on trans wellness bill moved to Thursday
column reported two weeks ago, health committee chairman state Senator Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) had originally intended not to have the committee hear the bill, AB 2218, "given the extraordinary COVID-19 crisis and the real-time constraints put on policy committees," according to an aide.However, after a push by activists with the TransLatin@ Coalition, the bill was heard in the health committee August 10, passed 7-1, and was forwarded to the appropriations committee. "It was definitely unexpected because what I learned was that the bill was not going to be put before the committee," Bamby Salcedo, a trans Latina immigrant woman who is the president and CEO of the coalition, said in an August 12 phone interview with the B.A.R. "It's a.
