California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. Texas, home to the nation’s second-largest economy, joins California’s growing list of states — Alabama, Kentucky and South Dakota were added at the same time — to which state-sponsored travel has been curbed because of similar legislation. “Texas is a big state,” he said, but added that the consequences for LGBT people in Texas “are real” as well. University of Kansas officials told the Lawrence Journal-World in February that University of California officials had already scuttled plans to schedule basketball games between the two schools because of the ban on travel. The Chronicle noted that Becerra has not ruled out expanding the list to include more states.

Source: Washington Post June 23, 2017 20:43 UTC