More than 100 LGBTQ plus supporters gathered at the Capitol today in opposition to those measures.

House Bill 470 and Senate Bill 115.

We spoke to Rebecca Blankenship, executive director for Ban Conversion Therapy Kentucky, about those bills and what they might mean for the LGBTQ community.

It is always so wonderful to see people come out and express this, this immense strength.

You know, we had over 150 participants here today.

It's amazing to see a crowd like this come out, I think, in great dignity and a great belief in the possibility of Kentucky.

We're seeing a vote on Senate Bill 115.

It passed a committee this morning.

That's a bill that effectively treats drag as an explicit sexual performance in a way that is totally inappropriate.

It defines what is fundamentally a political protest, an act of free speech, something that instead is now suddenly sexual and explicit and disgusting.

And that's just not true.

House Bill 470, which is the most heinous, anti-trans health care bill in the nation, it has been rushed into committee.

There are going to be hundreds, if not thousands of people to die if that bill passes.

We're going to be looking at annual suicide increases for trans kids that that's going to go up year after year beginning in 2024.

House Bill 470, as written in the committee substitute, would begin requiring kids who have already medically transitioned to detransition.

The harm there is immense.

We are talking about people who have begun new lives having all of that ripped away from them in spite of medical advice, in spite of their therapist recommendations over politics.

A majority of Kentucky, an overwhelming majority of Kentuckians, opposes these kinds of bills.

House Bill 470 and bills like it have the opposition of 71% of Kentuckians.

A similar number, 73% of Kentuckians know that conversion therapy doesn't work and can't change people.

So what we have is a huge gap between the legislature's approach to these issues and the will of the people.

So I ask the legislators, I ask the people of Kentucky every time that I see people of all kinds, not just LGBT people, but straight allies, as well, come out to say, no, things can be better.

They can be different.

We don't have to pretend that people can just change who they are.

It gives me immense hope for the state of Kentucky.

I think that if we stand up for truth and we stand up for American principles, that in the end we will win.

A piece of legislation that's being supported by the LGBTQ community as House Bill 162, which would make conversion therapy illegal.