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Author: Laura Kina

Laura Kina is a Vincent de Paul professor of art at DePaul University, visual artist and co-author of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Queering Contemporary Asian American Art and a public voices fellow through The OpEd Project.
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Anti-Trans Legislation to ‘Protect Children’ Harms LGBTQIA+ Youth—Both Now and in the Future

Laura Kina

Already, 150 bills aimed at LGBTQ youth have been filed or introduced in 25 states, from restrictions on drag performances, to bans on pronouns teachers can use in the classroom, to mandates that schools ‘out’ trans students to their families.

As a multiracial queer mom to a nonbinary Jewish child, these issues are both personal and political. 

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