“My entire life is here. All my friends, my family. I just got a promotion at my job, which I’m probably not [going] to be able to keep,” Lucas, who works in a financial aid office at a college, said. “I’m losing everything except Eli and my pets moving out of here. So this was not a decision that I took lightly at all.”A fire broke out at St. John’s United Methodist Church on Saturday evening, charring the already-damaged sanctuary. No one was injured.
Another new law that allows doctors and pharmacists to refuse to treat transgender people further limits their options. “There are a lot of people looking for care that we’re no longer legally able to provide,” said Lana Dunn, SPEKTRUM Health’s chief operating officer. Dunn estimates that 80% of trans adults in the state were getting their healthcare from a nurse practitioner and now have lost access.The law also contains language that she said could scare off doctors who would be otherwise willing to treat trans patients, such as a 20-year statute of limitations to sue over care they provide.