COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican lawmakers want to require Ohioans to have their "biological sex" listed on their licenses and state IDs. This is just one of the bills impacting the LGBTQ+ community being heard during Pride Month.

Pride Month is meant to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, but Arienne Childrey isn’t feeling very proud of Ohio.

"Stop attacking me and people like me," Childrey said. "Let us live"

The state lawmakers are debating a slew of LGBT-related bills — ones that she says could be harmful for transgender people like her.

A provision in the Senate's proposed budget would require driver’s licenses and state IDs to have a person’s sex assigned at birth on them, regardless of whether someone had changed their name or birth certificate.

This would misidentify and demean people,

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