Anti-Trans Legislation During a Pandemic: Local Democracies Are Failing Us Anti-Trans Legislation During a Pandemic: Local Democracies Are Failing Us April 6, 2021 Community leaders, parents, kids, doctors, lawyers, assemble in front of the White House to protest the non-science based policy of segregating LGBTQ children in public schools based on the schools' determination of their gender identity. In the new legislative session of 2021, Alabama’s elected officials have their work cut out for them. In Alabama, there have been 392,790 confirmed cases of coronavirus since March 2020, 45,976 hospitalizations, and 10,186 deaths. A central Alabama food bank reports feeding over 428,000 unique individuals throughout the course of 2020, more than double the amount of people they served in 2019. 1 in 10 people in Alabama entered the pandemic without health insurance, and 85,000 Alabamians are receiving unemployment benefits.