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Melissa Ratcliff: “There's been more than 600 bills introduced against…”

Featuring: Melissa Ratcliff, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, 16th District

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Ratcliff says transgender parent task force formed to fight ignorance and bigotry

Published | Video Starts at 02:51

And Representative Clancy and I formed this caucus because we are both parents of transgender children, which kind of gives us a unique perspective on all the anti trans bills out there across our nation. There's been more than 600 bills introduced against transgender youth and transgender individuals. And we thought that it was important in Wisconsin that we have this caucus fighting back against bills that we knew were coming that are still coming against our transgender youth. (02:51–03:00)

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