With thousands of bills drafted for legislators to review every year, there are always some that garner a lot of attention.

That’s exactly what happened with a bill that would remove gender identity and sexual orientation from civil liberties law according to House Representative for District 23 Ray Sorensen. He tells Raccoon Valley Radio why it failed in a House Subcommittee.

“That obviously wasn’t received well by the trans community, and I don’t think it really had a ton of support out of the House anyway. But a lot of people like to see what type of conversations can start from that, and so they’ll have a subcommittee just to see where it goes and what people have to say and things like that. That’s ultimately what this bill did.”

Sorensen adds that legislators using bills like this as a conversation starter isn’t new, and that it can help them create better bills in the future from feedback.