This letter is in response to the ADN article regarding Palmer Sen. Shelley Hughes. She is proposing a bill to the Legislature that would require schools to designate school-sponsored athletic teams or sports as male, female, or co-ed, but most importantly, would bar transgender girls from female sports. In this article she is quoted as stating “Alaskans want Alaskans’ values, American values to be sustained.”
I am an Alaskan, born and raised. As an Alaskan with “Alaskan values,” and as a medical provider with “American values,” I would like to let Sen. Hughes know that her proposed bill does not reflect either. In case she did not notice, our country is in need of love and compassion for one another, recognition and respect for all human beings, and ethical legislation to support the people who live here.
This bill is absolutely horrific, oozing hatred and fear, and without a moral compass. These are not Alaskan or American values, they are Sen. Hughes’. She was elected to represent all people of her district, not as a platform to promote divisive fear-mongering hatred that serves her purpose. She should stop promoting legislation that serves only her insecure self-interests.
— Je’dette A. Green
Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Anchorage
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