The Indianapolis Star. "I don't think I'm going to pursue any personal legislation to that end, but everything we are doing within government is trying to do what we believe is right," he said.However, Crane has been previously criticized for other legislation that affects the LGBTQ community, such as a bill he co-authored that would have required transgender residents to provide medical paperwork to identify a gender different from their birth gender on their driver's license.
The bill was not passed.The senator's Democratic opponent in the upcoming election penned an op-ed for LGBTQ Nation condemning Crane's position. "I'll put this bluntly: LGBTQ families in Indiana are under attack by my opponent John Crane simply because of DNA," Stan.