Many people consider Dolly Parton to be one of those celebrities we must protect at all costs, and it's easy to see why. The country music legend is far more than just a singer — she's also an outspoken advocate for the causes she believes in and almost always puts her money where her mouth is. Over her long career, she has been an enthusiastic supporter of the LGBTQ community. So it’s no surprise she had something to say about the anti-trans bills targeting transgender people in her home state of Tennessee, coming to the defense of the trans community in the process.
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Her beliefs are simple: Everyone should be treated with humanity.
"I just want everybody to be treated good," the 77-year-old singer said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter to promote her new album, Rockstar. She also quickly added that she tries to avoid politics; instead, she wants to "get into the human element of it."
Dolly says she treats everyone the same.
"I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I’ve got transgender people. I’ve got gays. I’ve got lesbians. I’ve got drunks. I’ve got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge," she shared with the news outlet.
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Dolly believes that we are who we say we are and no one should take that away from anyone else.
Dolly further explained, "I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them.
"They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business. But we are all God’s children and how we are is who we are," she concluded.
The governor of Tennessee has banned gender-affirming care for minors.
In March, Governor Bill Lee signed a bill into law that prohibits gender-affirming care for minors. The law prohibits health care providers "from performing on a minor or administering to a minor a medical procedure if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex," CNN reported.
Health care providers could face heavy fines for violating the law.
The bill also states that although minors cannot have legal action taken against them, legal action can be taken against their parents "if the parent of the minor consented to the conduct that constituted the violation on behalf of the minor," per CNN.
It also allows the attorney general to fine any health care providers who do provide gender-affirming care to minors. They would face a civil penalty of $25,000 per violation.
