Mohawks, dreadlocks, braids, afros and mullets.

Backers of the Crown Act want protection from hair based discrimination.

Crown stands for Creating a Respectful World for Natural hair.

Similar ordinances have been adopted in Louisville and Covington.

Crown Act proponents believe no one should lose their job or be forced to leave school or be kept from participating in school activities because of the way they wear their hair.

More as our legislative coverage and update continues.

Senate Bill 63 is their vehicle for protecting Kentuckians from race based hair discrimination.

Jeremiah McMillan of the group The Real Young Prodigy's testified before the Senate Judiciary panel yesterday to help kids like his sister.

Her step coach.

She had told my sister that she cannot be on the step team unless she has a slicked back ponytail.

And when my sister had told me all of this, I told her that we we got to stand up.

This goes against the ordinance that we have passed in Louisville, which is train wreck for an open world for natural hair, which you can wear your hair without being discriminated by.

And at Kentucky is we should want to protect each other.

That means even my fault.

That means even if wearing your afro like my sister or wearing your mullet like the Me County baseball team did before they was forced to cut off their mullet.

Judiciary panel members had questions about workplace safety precautions and requirements for police or military service.

We just disagree.

And that's why I can't support this legislation down through history.

Sports, current uniforms, all kinds of situations where haircuts and uniformity have been used in a traditional way to for all kinds of things that make units better, not worse.

So I just don't understand the motivations of it.

It would seem to me that if it does apply to everyone, then that means there can be no rules if it applies to everyone.

So for that reason, I can't support it.

If you know, this discussion this morning is reminding me, unfortunately, of what they did honestly to Jews in the Holocaust.

The first thing that happened to you when you showed up at a camp was they shaved your head.

I don't care if you were a man.

I don't care if you are a woman.

I don't care if you were a child.

They shaved your head and they did that to to humanize you.

We do not live in that society.

We will not tolerate that in our society.

And, sir, you have the right to be the human you were born to be.

The Crown Act cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a vote of 6 to 3 yesterday.

It now waits for action by the full Senate.