State Senator Roxanne Persaud is sponsoring the bill to ban Virginity Testing in the Senate.  She, too, was outraged by the T.I. incident, and has been working alongside Assembly Member Solages to have the practice outlawed.  She’ll talk about why she believes it is so important in the age of #MeToo to protect women from having to take these tests, and she’ll talk about working to get other legislators to sign on to the bill, an effort that’s been very successful, she says, so far.  She’ll also speak to why she agrees doctors need to be the focus of the bill, and how the medical community should be responsible for its front-line enforcement.  And she’ll say why she believes, even though young women may be forced to find other means of having the testing done, step one needs to be stopping the medical community from performing virginity tests.