LEXINGTON, Ky. — State Sen. Karen Berg, D-Louisville, begged her colleagues Wednesday to quit targeting transgender students with their legislation — less than two months after her own son, who was trans, died by suicide.
“I am going to make an open plea to the members of this body that we avoid politicizing issues that are literally killing our children,” an impassioned Berg said. “That are literally putting them in the grave. We are politicizing this for no reason.”
Berg’s remarks came after Sen. Max Wise, a Campbellsville Republican and running mate of gubernatorial candidate Kelly Craft, filed Senate Bill 150, which would, among other things, prohibit local school districts from requiring teachers to use “pronouns for students that do not conform to that particular student’s biological sex.”
