See also: Mississippi wants to block transgender people under age 21 from receiving gender-affirming careCritics of Allen’s bill argue that the provision around school officials is ambiguous, and doesn’t make clear whether those officials would be thrown in prison for withholding information that a youth’s gender identity doesn’t match their assigned sex at birth.“Because it’s ambiguous, it can absolutely be read that those felony penalties would apply to teachers and that’s part of what makes this bill so concerning, is the lack of clarity around who is going to be penalized for what,” Kaitlin Welborn, a staff attorney at the ACLU of Alabama, told the American Independent. “If you read the felony penalty as only applying to medical.